Related Clues:

• Dissertation
• Op-ed piece
• ''Civil Disobedience,'' e.g.
• Give an account of
• Endeavor
• Piece of Bacon?
• Emerson product
• Show up for duty
• Homework assignment, sometimes
• Present oneself
• Schoolboy's grammatical exercise
• Swift's ''A Modest Proposal,'' e.g.
• Writing assignment
• Emerson's ''Self-Reliance,'' for one
• Composition