UMN First-Year Writing Program Student Writing Awards
The First-Year Writing Program is accepting self nominations for our 2023 FYW Student Awards. We annually select up to 5 recipients for this award.
All submissions will also be considered for The Jacobsen Spirit Award. The Jacobsen Spirit award recognizes a piece of student writing that best embodies the virtues of our beloved colleague Scott Jacobson: vitality, concise wit, and humor
Award recipients will be notified by email early in spring semester. Recipients will receive a prize and have their essay published on the FYW Program website and in the Digital Conservancy.
Criteria for Award:
- The composition powerfully and effectively creates meaning and delivers a message.
- The composition demonstrates rhetorical awareness in that it is adapted to meet the needs of the rhetorical situation. The composition is highly successful in engaging an audience. Both macro-level (message, structure, and components) and micro-level choices (word choice, sentence structure, style) enable the audience to think about the topic.
- The composition skillfully develops content that draws on experience and/or research to inquire into and develop insight into the question or topic raised by the essay.
- The submission is original work, produced in Spring 2023, Summer 2023 or Fall 2023 WRIT 1201, WRIT1301, or WRIT1401
- Reflects the range of topics, perspectives, voices, and forms of writing that are studied and produced in FYW course
How to Submit Your Work for Consideration
- Students can submit up to 1 piece of work for the committee to consider
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Self-nominations only; can be by a single student-author or by a group of student-author
Submission Information
Submissions will be welcome until December 29, 2023
December 29, 2023
Past Winners:
Winning submissions are available to read via the University Digital Conservancy. (See below)
Carson Nida - First-Year Writing Student Writing Award
Lindsey Oh - First-Year Writing Student Writing Award
Evan Peterson - First-Year Writing Student Writing Award
Jens Henrickson - First-Year Writing Student Writing Award Honorable Mention
Amanda Rognerud - First-Year Writing Student Writing Award Honorable Mention
Perry Clifton - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Lauren Facente - Writing from Experience Winner
Charlotte McDaniel - Writing from Experience Honorable Mention
Ellie Schugel - Writing from Experience Honorable Mention
Amanda Foster - Writing with Sources Winner
Rianna Gomes - Writing with Sources Winner
Isa Guillen - Writing with Sources Honorable Mention
Terry Vu - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Mary Johnson - Writing from Experience Winner
Emily Ross - Writing from Experience Honorable Mention
Carel Tulus - Writing with Research Winner
Bradley Allen - Writing with Research Honorable Mention
Sammy Schutz - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Yasmin Mohran - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Jorge Aliaga del Campo - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award Honorable Mention
Hana Abdelhamid - Writing from Experience Award
Philip Hult - Writing from Experience Award
Serena Yang - Writing from Experience Honorable Mention
Amy Nguyen - Remix Award
Maddie Toombs - Remix Award
Lauren Gray - Remix Honorable Mention
Euan Lim - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Manan Mrig - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
*Due to COVID disruptions, this group of awards included submissions from summer 2019 through fall 2020 semesters.
Hunter Babcock - Excellence Award
Jimmy Cooper - Excellence Award
Adam Dahlquist - Excellence Award
Benjamin Kuker - Excellence Award
Hayden Taillon - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Charles Bengtson - Excellence Award
McKenna Dale - Excellence Award
Eesha Irfanullah - Excellence Award
Michael James Staff - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Adam Kostanecki - Excellence Award
Michael Leehan - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Julie Yuan - Excellence Award
Syreen Bnabilah - Excellence Award
Gayatri Narayanan - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Hayley McCormack - Excellence Award
Jordan Sparks - Excellence Award
Xochitl Alejandra Villezcas - Excellence Award
Benjamin Ogilvie - Excellence Award
Sia Thao - Scott Jacobson Spirit Award
Abigail Meyer
Sidney Paulson
Daniel Picardo
Cody Tucholke
Molly Anderson
Brady Becker
Ivy Johnson
Eric Osborn
Nathaniel Smith