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! OSU’s FYC program hosts a "Writing Awards," during which we take time to gather with one another and celebrate the work of our incredible FYC 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!
From Left to Right: Naila Louis, Maddi Warner, Kaylen Gaddis, Brooks Martin, Hannah Brunn, Mikeshia Rogers, Karten Levings, and Chris Reed
2023-2024 Writing Awards Winners
Essay Most Engaged With Current Issues: Naila Louis, "Against Transracialism"
Most Significantly Revised Essay: Maddi Warner, "Five Steps to Cleaning Dirt Bike Carburetor"
Most Engaged Community Member in a Composition Classroom: Brooks Martin
Best Composition I Essay: Hannah Brunn, "Linda"
Most Innovative or Creative Essay: Mikeshia Rogers, "How To Play the Cello"
Best Composition I Essay: Karten Levings, "The Bite of '08"
Best Composition II Essay: Keightley Simon, "White Supremacist Propoganda in Social Media"
Best Multi-Modal Project: Hannah Gullatt, "Analysis of Gaming"
2023-2024 Writing Awards Honorable Mentions
Essay Most Engaged With Current Issues: Maddi Warner, "Is Studying Abroad Worth It as an Architecture Student?"
Most Significantly Revised Essay: Kaylin Gaddis, "The Banned Book Club"
Most Engaged Community Member in a Composition Classroom: Karli Godwin
Best Composition I Essay: Chris Reed, "The Dual Benefits of Video Games for Mental and Physical Well-being"
Most Innovative or Creative Essay: Mario Morales-Iturbe, "Cafe Mona's Beginnings and Progress to be 'Different than Everyone Else'"
Best Composition II Essay: Levi Feazel, "The Case Against Fast Fashion"
Best Composition II Essay: Elysia Strauss, "An Evaluation of Successful Aging"