Writing Studies Department Honors Outstanding Student Writers at Annual Awards Ceremony

During the Writing Studies awards ceremony, which took place on April 15 in the beautiful CELS Atrium, awards were given for outstanding work in First-Year Writing as well as in Public and Professional Writing. Outstanding students in the PPW major were also inducted into the department Honor Society.

First-Year Writing Exemplary Essay Awards went to Johnathan Smith for his WRIT105 essay “The Busta Cake Mistake” and to Kelly Naspo for her WRIT106 essay, “The Not-So-Authentic Native American Experience.” Honorable Mentions were given in WRIT105 to Malak Bayoumy for her essay “Toxic Relationships in the Media: The Bad and the Ugly” and Jessica Sconfienza for her essay, “The War on Drag.” WRIT106 Honorable Mention went to Annabelle Kempf for her essay “Disenfranchised Grief: Exploring the Complexities of Hidden Sorrow.”

The Outstanding Multimodal Composition award was given to First-Year Writing student Adrianna Sewell for her original song: “Natural Hair: The Beauty That We Need” while an Honorable Mention was given to Maya Chavez Velasquez for her website, “Mental Health Stigma in the Latino Community” Instructor: Jessica Taylor.

Awards were also given for outstanding work in the Professional and Public Writing major courses. The Excellence in Public Writing Awards went to Siddhi Sundaram for “Depression, has the Narrative Changed?” as well as Donaelle Benoit for her Grant Proposal, “Making Communities Brighter“, while the Excellence in Professional Writing Awards went to Brielle Bogash and Sadie Bevando for their presentation for a Global Community, “Etiquette in Japan“. The Excellence in Writing for Social Media award went to Gina-Marie Zoccoli for her campaign for Alchemy Scent Bar. And the Text Power Telling Awards went to Allison O’Donnell and Dillan Ortiz.