SAGES First Seminar Essay Awards

SAGES First Seminar Essay Awards 2013-2014 The Department of English, SAGES, and the Center for the Study of Writing are pleased to announce the AY 2013-2014 SAGES First Seminar Essay Awards, which recognize the best essays produced by our students in First Seminar courses. Each selected essay will be published in a prize booklet; student authors will receive a cash prize.

Award Procedure:

 Faculty and/or Writing Instructors in SAGES First Seminars may nominate up to two essays from their courses by completing this form and returning it to [email protected] by or before the date that fall semester grades are due (December 20, 2013).

 Students will be contacted and asked to submit final, electronic copies of their essays by the end of the drop/add period of the following spring semester (January 24, 2014).

 Essays will be judged by writing faculty and awards will be announced in time for the publication of the prize booklet, which will be distributed at the spring Celebration of Student Writing (April 18, 2014).

SAGES First Seminar Essay Award Nomination Form

Faculty Name(s):

Course Number & Title:

Student Name & CWRU Network ID:

Essay Title:

Please describe the assignment for which this essay was written (≤100 words):

Please explain briefly what makes this essay outstanding (≤100 words):

Please note: Faculty assignment descriptions and evaluations of student writing may be published in the prize booklet alongside the winning essays.