In OSU’s First-Year Composition Program, we not only believe in the importance of exploring the implications, entanglements, and importance of engaging rhetorically with community, we also believe in celebrating within our writerly communities! In collaboration with OSU’s Writing Center, OSU’s FYC program hosts the annual "Celebrating Writing Awards," during which we take time to gather with one another and celebrate the work of our incredible FYC Instructors, WC Consultants, and students. We know that writing within an institutional space, while exciting, can offer challenges, setbacks, and frustrations, and therefore it is imperative to us that we both share the important work we see in classroom spaces, and offer that work the recognition it deserves outside of the classroom space.
Over the next few years, we hope to grow the Celebrating Writing Awards into a larger celebration, bringing in different types of writing from across disciplines and classrooms. We are also working to develop more events that are linked to this celebration to emphasize community collaboration and engagement. Overall, we want this program to become a campus-wide initiative to offer students and instructors spaces in which they can recognize and celebrate the efforts and achievements made in our classroom spaces.
You put a great deal of energy, thoughtfulness, and time into your work. We see that effort, and as a community, want to acknowledge the ways in which you have contributed to ensuring that OSU’s writing programs continue to evolve and offer space for experimentation, collaboration, and creation! We look forward to celebrating your writing from the 2022-2023 academic school year!