Emerging Writers Contest Winners

2017-2018 Winners

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    • 1st Place: Hannah Helwig

      Article: “Language and Identity: How Music Affects Language and Communication”. In Mary Behrman’s class.
    • 2nd  Place: Nicolas Franco-Roldan

      Article: “Language: The Amicable Monster in Arrival”. In Mary Kay McBrayer’s class.

    • 3rd Place: Amber Stokes  

             Article: “Age of Failure”. In Becky Kraegel’s class.

     

    Finalist, Joshua Tryon — Article: “Grant Tenure to Tenure”. In Patrice Brown’s class.

    Finalist, Rebecca Filler — Article: “The Sophistical Tongue Trap”. In Constance Briggs’s class.

    • 1st Place: Morgan Widner

      Article: “My Mom: Modern Day Superwoman”. In Melissa Keith’s class.
    • 2nd  Place: Natalie Dayvault

      Article: “The Food Nazi”. In MJ Severson’s class.
    • 3rd Place: Camilla Stegall 

      Article: “Baking”. In Rochelle Harris’s class.

     

    Finalist, Mary Sims — Article: “The Importance of Word Choice”. In Christine Ghattas's class.

    Finalist, Rebecca Filler — Article: “The Horror Behind My Love for Reading and Writing”. In Constance Briggs’s class.

    •  1st Place: Katherine Beckner

      Article: “Managing Millenial Workers: A Multigenerational Approach”. In Amelia Lewis’s class.

    • 2nd  Place: Mary Sims

      Article: “Habit Formation and Deconstruciton: A Study in Behavioral Psychology” . In Christine Ghattas's class.
    • 3rd Place: Mandi Rocker 

      Article: “Martin Luther King Jr. Rhetorical Analysis”. In Denise White’s class.
       

    Finalist, Ty'a Oliver — Article: “Judgement Kills: A Rhetorical Analysis of an Anti-Racial Profiling Visual”. In Sarah Creel's class.

    Finalist, Rebecca Filler — Article: “Millenials Are Killing This, This, and This -- Or Are They?”. In Amelia Lewis’s class.

   
 

 

 

 

 

Emerging Writers Finalists 2017 


Spring Semester 2017 Awards Ceremony Winners

Academic Category

1st--Riley Anttila “Federal Mandate Requiring HAI Reporting in Nursing Homes”
2nd--Vanessa Stancil “Flat Scream TV: An Analysis of Death in News and Entertainment Media”
3rd--Courtney Jones “Corporal Punishment in U.S. Schools: Unnecessary, Harmful, and Ineffective”
Finalist--Juliana Rafla “The College Experience: A Testimony to College Campus Sexual Assault Survivors”
Finalist--Maryam Zargahi “Body Language: An Effective and Ambiguous Communication Tool”

Rhetorical Analysis Category

1st--Alyssa Sullivan “A Not-So-Ugly American's Transformation: The Beauty of a Kind Christmas Act”
2nd--Savannah Martin "’The Eco-Gastronomic Mirror.’" A Rhetorical Analysis.”
3rd--Perrin Smith “Losing Faith or Gaining Knowledge”
Finalist--Justo Elortondo “Faithful Alimentation”
Finalist--Zachary Mnich “A Real Ad for a Virtual Sport”

Creative Non-Fiction Category

1st--Anna Gerbsch "My Monster"
2nd--Mackenzie Wright "Copper Shell"
3rd--Milea Griffin "Everybody Makes Mistakes"
Finalist--Katie Carlson "The Hand-Me-Down House"
Finalist--Courtney Jones "Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Whose Life Story Inspired My Own"


 Your Essay Could be Worth Something!

Cash. Prizes. Publication.

If you were enrolled in English 1101 or English 1102 during January-December 2017, you can have your essay read by local and national judges. You may even win cash, prizes, & publication!

Rhetorical Analysis

  • close reading of a text
  • maximum length 6 double-spaced pages

Academic Essays

  • research-based and critical essays
  • maximum-length 10 double-spaced pages

Creative Non-Fiction

  • personal essays, memoirs, travel writing
  • maximum-length 10 double-spaced pages

Choose your favorite category or submit one to all! Email essays as Word file attachments to emergingwriterscontest@gmail.com

DEADLINE: Be looking for the contest deadling in February of 2018.

Winners announced during the English Department Spring Festival in April 2018 and winning essays will be published in the 2017 edition of the Emerging Writers text.


Past Awards Ceremony Events

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