Sample Student Work

 

Annual Writers’ Showcase
Volume 7

About the Writers’ Showcase:

The Showcase provides a platform for Columbia College’s first-year writing students to communicate to an audience beyond their teachers and classmates.

While exhibiting student writing remains the primary goal of this program, these texts may also be useful in a variety of ways to instructors at Columbia College.  The editors have created a page available on Moodle to begin a discussion about different ways the texts might be used in the first-year writing courses.

How the Writers’ Showcase works:

Each annual volume (edition) of the showcase includes the Fall semester and the subsequent Spring semester. The most recent completed volume, for example (Volume 7, the results of which are featured here) considered student works from Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 semesters.

Students may self-submit. Instructors may encourage students who demonstrate excellent work to self-submit. Instructors may submit student work on the students’ behalf and with their knowledge and approval. Submissions should be e-mailed to Bob Simoncini (rsimoncini@colum.edu), in Word®, RTF, or PDF format, and must include the name of the author, the title of the course, the name of the instructor, and a brief statement as to the rhetorical purpose for the work and/or the context of the assignment.

Multi-modal compositions/texts that communicate using visual, audio, and other media in addition to traditional alphabetic text are encouraged, but not required. The editors try to select a range of texts to represent the diversity of the assignments completed in these courses.

Submissions from the following PWR courses are welcome:

CATEGORY A:

52-1101S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch A

52-1121 International Writing & Rhetoric I

52-1122 International Writing & Rhetoric II

52-1151S Writing & Rhetoric I Stretch B

52-1151 Writing & Rhetoric I

52-1151HN Writing & Rhetoric I – Honors

 

CATEGORY B:

52-1152 Writing & Rhetoric II

52-1152HN Writing & Rhetoric II—Honors

 

An essay (or multiple essays) will be selected to receive the Editors’ Choice Award, and authors will each receive $100. In addition, a small selection of works awarded for ‘Excellence’ will be featured on this Showcase site.

Submissions for Volume 8 (FA17 and SP18) of the Program are currently being accepted. All Spring 2018 submissions are due no later than Friday, May 27, 2018. All Spring 2018 submissions welcome now.

Volume 7 Results:

Included in Volume 7 of the Writers’ Showcase is a selection of essays from Writing & Rhetoric I and II. One essay received an Editors’ Choice Award of $100 and the additional essays were recognized with the Award of Excellence. Here is a link to previous editions of the anthology of work produced in Writing and Rhetoric I and II.