Dr. Joe Williams, Coordinator of the Student Writing Awards
The Rhetoric and Writing Department Student Writing Award winners were announced at the annual awards ceremony on Thursday, May 4.
The department offers ten awards for student writing produced in rhetoric and writing classes, from first-year through graduate-level. This year, sixty-seven students submitted writing to be considered for awards in eight categories and for two overall awards.
“Many students at UA-Little Rock are fantastic writers who are just looking for the right home on campus to develop their skills. The awards competition reminds me that our Rhetoric and Writing majors have found that home.” said Joe Williams, Coordinator of the Student Writing Awards
“We were thrilled to have such a large and diverse number of writers participate in the awards competition. We saw a wide range of strong work, from creative nonfiction to web design to technical communication to argumentation.”
Greg Graham, Instructor of Rhetoric and Writing, presented the award winners a cash award and a certificate.
Overall Undergraduate Winner & Nonfiction Award Winner
Ashley Deen for “Sympathy for the Devil“
Overall Graduate Winner & Research or Theoretical Award Winner
Lisa Stine for ““Analysis of 2016 Presidential Candidate Social Media Activity”
Design Award
Heather Tolliver for “Black Heroes: Comic Books and the Politics of Race“
Editing
Robert McCarville for “Smart Art Editing“
First-Year Writing
Jana Jolly for “The Day the Earth Stood Still“
New Media and Technology
Hope Osborne for “Inclusive Exclusivity“
Technical and Workplace Writing
Tina Butler Lee, Megan Nolan (not pictured), Amy Rhea, and Amber White
Persuasive Writing
Lisa Gibson Williams for “Restorative Justice as a Means of Reducing Recidivism” (not pictured)
In addition to these writing awards, Tina Butler Lee received the Oliver-Breeze-Kennedy Scholarship for Technical Writing.
For more information about the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Student Writing Awards, please see the student writing awards webpage.
