2025 International Undergraduate Writing Contest!
Do you enjoy writing and want to show off your skills? Do you like the idea of having a writing contest on your resume?
Submission Deadline: 12:00 PM (Noon) Friday, March 7, 2025
Contest Rules:
Four prizes will be awarded for essays written by international undergraduate students for a course in the Program in English as a Second Language (ESL 117 or ESL 118) during the 2024/25 academic year. The work can be on any subject, but must be informative, analytical, or argumentative.
- 1st Place: $250
- 2nd Place: $150
- 2 runners up:$100 each
Questions?
Submission Procedure:
- 6 single-spaced, typed pages maximum (plus your reference page)
- Stapled and double-sided
- 12-point font, Times New Roman
- Do not include your name on the essay
- Include the cover sheet available in the ESL Office, from your instructor, or upload the coversheet from the Writing Contest Cover Sheet link
- Students may not submit more than one essay
- Note: The Independent Research Project (IRP) from ESL 118 may not be entered in the contest
- Submit 5 printed copies of your essay, along with one copy of the cover sheet to the ESL Office, 5134, 5th fl., Helen C. White Hall during the office hours.
- Monday – Wednesday from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Friday from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Please note: Essays that do not conform to the guidelines will not be considered.
Submission Deadline: 12:00 PM (Noon) Friday, March 7, 2025
First Place:
Hiroaki Taniyama (Instructor: Karen Best)
Second Place:
Abigail Wu (Instructor: Shauna Crowther)
Two Runners Up:
- Xingrun Lu (Instructor: Stephen Timm)
- Ralitsa Wong (Instructor: Jenny Wilson-Farley)