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I'm a bit wary of writing something new without any guidance. I've been out of school for a couple of years now. Are there many R/C PhD Programs that accept applicants without an MA? I thought most programs liked to see the MA first.

Thanks for the helpful replies, folks! It sounds like I should be less anxious about this. I'll just polish up what I've got and let the chips fall.

Hello there! No, I'm not fashionably late to the fall 2016 application party. I'm here to pre-game for fall 2017. What did you folks use for your R/C writing samples? I majored in English (linguistics) and economics, so I don't have a relevant piece. I'll likely either submit some underwhelming marxist lit crit or an esoteric and oh-so-terrible sociolinguistics essay. Likely dead in the water either way, but I'm leaning toward the former. It seems like most of us weren't lucky enough to study the field during undergrad, so I'm curious how people handle the sample. (If you want, you can also advise me on my own situation.)