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In Writing and Rhetoric
Columbia College Chicago
Annual Writers’ Showcase
Volume 9
About the Writers’ Showcase:
The Showcase provides a platform for Columbia College Chicago’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 Chicago.
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 9, the results of which are featured here) considered student works from Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 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.
Multimodal 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:
ENGL 108 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch A
CATEGORY B:
ENGL 112 Writing & Rhetoric II
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 10 (FA19 and SP20) of the Program are currently being accepted. All Spring 2020 submissions are due no later than May 2020.
Volume 9 Results
Included in Volume 9 of the Writers’ Showcase is a selection of essays from Writing & Rhetoric I and II.
Student author:
Lucien Cambric
Title: A Remix of the Personal Essay
Course: ENGL 111
Instructor: Rebecca Khera
Student author:
Jacob Javor
Title: We Mental Few: Mental Maturity and Adulthood
Course: ENGL 112H
Instructor: Matthew McCurrie
Student author:
Katie Johnston
Title: The Barriers Faced by Female Writers
Course: ENGL 112
Instructor: Bob Simoncini
Student author:
Oliver Schilling
Title: LGBTQ Characters in Theatre
Course: ENGL 112
Instructor: Bob Simoncini
Student author:
Nick Zenzola
Title: Changing Flights
Course: ENGL 112
Instructor: Andrew Krzak