<p>My d is a second semester college sophomore who is looking for a summer internship, preferably in a government agency in an education-related field. She's a history major and thinks she'd like to be a secondary school history teacher.</p>
<p>She visited her Career Center yesterday and had her resume approved. The person helping her told her it would be fine to submit any of her college-level papers as a writing sample. My question is, is it really? She sent me a few for my advice on which to submit, and all of them seem to be very subject-specific and *long<a href="8-10%20pages%20without%20the%20works%20cited">/i</a>. Do the folks who read this just want to be certain she can write effectively - by which I mean, will they just skim a writing sample? Or will they be turned off by a comparison of how Mill and Locke see the role of the individual in society? (I don't want to read that, and my kid wrote it.) :)</p>
<p>She had some good essays when she did college applications - would one of those be appropriate? It would be much faster and more enjoyable to read. Any advice?</p>