First Year Writing Awards
We had strong competition this year for our 3 categories of Best Essay, Most Improved Writer, and Best Portfolio. (Alas, we can only hand out one award per category!)
This year’s winner for Best Essay is Taylor Jokish with her 102 Argument essay: “Need for Speed.”
Our Most Improved Writer Award goes to Jeff Karmatzis for his course work in English 101 in the Fall of 2011.
And finally, our last award, Best Portfolio, goes to Sshillisa Williams for her 101 portfolio from the Fall of 2011.
The English Awards committee commends all of our finalists and runners-up for their strong entries in this competition.
Award for Undergraduate English Students
Congratulations to Kevin Tasker for “To Bow to the Rod of Glory” and to Timothy McDermott for “Conflicting Sexuality in ‘Goodbye, My Brother,’” dual winners of the Marylin Ostrowski Memorial Undergraduate Award.
Awards for Graduate English Students
Congratulations to Erik Igoe for his essay, “Eveline’s Frank”, winner of the Marylin Ostrowski Memorial Graduate Award.
Congratulations to Lacey Frye, winner of the Rosie Richmond Scholarship for female creative writers.
Congratulations to Sarah Collins winner of the Razak Dahmane Award for Finest Masters Thesis, “The Face of Disability: Humanizing Effects of Autographics on the Physically and Mentally Impaired.” Sarah also won the Roese Memorial Scholarship. Ms. Collins’ thesis also went on to win the University’s 2011-12 Outstanding Master’s Thesis/Project Award. Her thesis advisor was Dr. Lan Dong.
Thanks go out all those who submitted and to the English Awards Committee.