comprehensive writing courses: Writing Skills (English 080) and Composition I (English 111). The First-Year Writing Committee was chaired in 2019–2020 by Emily Beard-Bohn, associate professor of English. The winners of the 2020 First-Year Writing Awards for English 111 were as follows: • First Place: Danielle Wolanin, “Code Meshing: A Study of How Code Meshing Is Linked to a Double Consciousness” • Second Place: Peyton Hart, “Writing Away My Dreams” • Third Place: Alexis Moulton, “The Art of a Shitty First Draft” • Fourth Place: Graham Jones, “Handcuffs” • Fifth Place: Elijah Whitney, “What My Writing Means” The First-Year Writing Committee also awarded the following prizes to students enrolled in sheltered sections of First-Year Composition classes: • First Place: Farhim Apu, Rakibul Hassan, and Zakaria Abden, “Reflection of a Discourse Community: Dining Services at SVSU” • Second Place: Sara Neves, “The Sense of Good Writing” • Third Place: Binh Duc Dang, “The Art of Writing” The following prizes were given to students enrolled in English 080: • First Place: Ja’Lynn Jones, “Marshall Fredericks’ Persephone” • Second Place: Logan Zakoor, “How to Process a Whitetail”
The Diane Boehm Writing Awards for e-Portfolios were first awarded in 2015. Established by Diane Boehm, founder and former director of the SVSU Writing Center and the SVSU University Writing Program, the awards recognize the creative and effective integration of writing and multimedia by SVSU students via the medium of e-Portfolios. Entries are judged according to a portfolio’s ability to do the following: present a student’s capabilities in an engaging, professional, and comprehensive manner; include artifacts and documents that demonstrate deep learning appropriate to the student’s class or chosen major; include perceptive self-reflection; demonstrate creative use of multimedia; and be easy to navigate and aesthetically effective based on the capabilities of the software or program. Coordinated by the University Writing Committee, the Boehm Awards are given for portfolios made for the classroom or for a workplace application. The Ming Chuan Multilingual Writing Awards were awarded for the first time in 2018 and were established by Dr. Robert S. P. Yien. A longtime supporter of SVSU, Dr. Yien joined SVSU in 1970 and was a recipient of the Franc A. Landee Teaching Excellence Award, he served as the vice president for Academic Affairs, and he has been instrumental in the success of Ming Chuan University at SVSU. These awards recognize writing excellence by international students at SVSU. One award is for students in the English Language Program; the other award is for students who have moved into courses that are required as part of their degree. These awards are coordinated by the University Writing Committee.
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