| English 101 assignment | 22 |
| Composition with a viewpoint | 28 |
| Class paper | 11 |
| Certain English assignment | 26 |
| Calvin Trillin piece | 20 |
| Blue book entry | 15 |
| "The New Yorker" piece | 32 |
| Writing contest entry, often | 28 |
| W.E.B. Du Bois work | 19 |
| The Atlantic piece | 18 |
| Test segment, perhaps | 21 |
| Susan Sontag piece | 18 |
| Student's composition | 25 |
| SAT segment | 11 |
| Samuel Johnson work | 19 |
| Repplier product | 16 |
| Pope's "An _____ on Man" | 38 |
| Piece of writing | 16 |
| Piece of Lamb or Bacon | 22 |
| Piece in the paper, perhaps | 27 |
| Persuasive piece | 16 |
| Personal prose unit | 19 |
| Part of many a history test | 27 |
| Part of a Social Studies test | 29 |
| Part of a college application | 29 |
| Opinionated work | 16 |
| National Review piece | 21 |
| Montaigne piece | 15 |
| Maureen Dowd piece | 18 |
| Magazine piece, sometimes | 25 |
| Long test answer | 16 |
| Lamb's forte | 16 |
| Lamb or Bacon piece | 19 |
| High-school composition | 23 |
| Gore Vidal piece | 16 |
| English test, sometimes | 23 |
| English test requirement | 24 |
| English exam, often | 19 |
| Emerson effort | 14 |
| Elian work | 10 |
| E. B. White piece | 17 |
| Common college admissions requirement | 37 |
| Common college admission requirement | 36 |
| College application piece, perhaps | 34 |
| Blue book test answer | 21 |
| Blog entry, maybe | 17 |
| Bit of literature | 17 |
| Article in Harper's | 23 |
| Alternative to multiple choice | 30 |
| "How I Spent My Summer," often | 40 |
| "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," e.g. | 48 |
| "Civil Disobedience" is one | 37 |
| "A Modest Proposal," e.g. | 35 |
| Written test type | 17 |
| Written test answer | 19 |
| Written analysis | 16 |
| Write-up in mag | 15 |
| Work from S.A.? | 15 |
| Work by Elia | 12 |
| What reporter writes on rocker | 30 |
| Very long-winded answer | 23 |
| Vehicle for Steele or Mencken | 29 |
| Type of test you can't guess on | 35 |
| Try one's hand at | 21 |
| Thoreau tract | 13 |
| Thoreau composition | 19 |
| “The Federalist Papers” piece | 37 |
| Test you can't really guess on | 34 |
| Test type you can't really guess on | 39 |
| Test that's tough to cheat on | 33 |
| Test section, often | 19 |
| Test question, maybe | 20 |
| Test format, perhaps | 20 |
| Test format, often | 18 |
| Test composition | 16 |
| Test answer, maybe | 18 |
| Test answer in a blue book | 26 |
| Term paper | 10 |
| Swift composition | 17 |
| Steele work | 11 |
| Short prose piece | 17 |
| Short piece on a given subject | 30 |
| Section of the SAT | 18 |
| Schoolboy's writing exercise | 32 |
| Schoolboy's grammatical exercise | 36 |
| School project | 14 |
| School assignment, perhaps | 26 |
| Scholarly dissertation | 22 |
| SAT part | 8 |
| Samuel Johnson's "The False Alarm," e.g. | 54 |
| Russell Baker specialty | 23 |
| Repplier work | 13 |
| Product of Bacon or Lamb | 24 |
| Position paper | 14 |
| Pope's "An ___ on Criticism" | 42 |
| Pope's "___ on Man" | 33 |
| Pope production | 15 |
| Poetic Pope product | 19 |
| Piece with a point (5) | 22 |
| Piece of Slate, e.g. | 20 |