Sweetland’s prizes for outstanding writing in First-Year and Upper-Level Writing Requirement courses receive a significant monetary award along with having their work published in a series that collects the prize-winning writing in two volumes, Excellence in First-Year Writing and Excellence in Upper-Level Writing. Writing Prize winners were recognized at a ceremony in April 2018.
Excellence in First-Year Writing book
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Excellence in Upper-Level Writing book
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First-Year Writing Prizes
Matt Kelley/Granader Family Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing
Wisteria Deng, “Six Reasons”
nominated by Leslie Stainton, RC 100
Zofia Ferki, “As Time Ticks By”
nominated by Leslie Stainton, RC 100
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Multilingual Writing
Pok Yu Chan, “Snickers Got You Snickering”
nominated by Scott Beal, WRITING 120
Dorcas Li, “Hey, where are you?”
nominated by Scott Beal, WRITING 120
Granader Family Prize for Outstanding Writing Portfolio
Rita Hathaway, “The Spectrum Center: Enriching the Campus Experience”
nominated by Simone Sessolo, WRITING 100
Ying-Hsuan Wu, “Past/Future of My Home”
nominated by Jimmy Brancho, WRITING 100
Upper-Level Writing Prizes
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Social Sciences)
Jessica Baer, “Modern Sports as Pre-Modern in Media”
nominated by Emma Waitzman (GSI) Andrei Markovits (Faculty), PolSci 368
Kyra Lyngklip, “Polarization and Lobbying Influence of the Dodd-Frank Act”
nominated by Eitan Paul (GSI) Nancy Burns (Faculty), PolSci 381
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Sciences)
Evan Hoopingarner, “Unreliable inhaler access plagues Detroit’s asthmatics”
nominated by Emilia Askari, Environ 320
Deirdre McGovern, “What We Learn from the Mouse”
nominated by Andrew Bernard, Anthrbio 368
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Humanities)
Mateusz Borowiecki, “Human Agency and Control in the Shadow of Enlightenment”
nominated by Scott Spector, German 401
Caitlyn Zawideh, “Mother of Exiles”
nominated by Molly Beer, ENG 325
