First-Year Writing Contest

First-Year Writing Contest Rules

1. All Lake Forest College first-year students may participate.

2. Only one entry per student will be accepted.

3. Submit a composition or essay from any Lake Forest College course or tutorial (No fiction or poetry).

4. Entries should be submitted BOTH on-line by sending an email to Proffesor Dawn Abt-Perkins and as hard copy to Johnson B 175.

5. Please follow these guidelines for your hard copy:

a. Title page should include the paper’s title, your name (your name should appear only on the title page), and the class and professor for whom the paper was written.

b. The full title should appear on the first page of text; a partial title should appear on all other pages of text.

c. Number all text pages.

d. Double-space all text.

6. A jury of faculty will judge entries.

7. Winner(s) will receive a book prize and recognition at the Fall Honors Convocation.
 
SUBMIT papers to the Writing Center, Johnson B 175

DEADLINE: December 14th at 4:30 pm.

QUESTIONS: Call The Writing Center, Ext. 5233

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Dawn Abt-Perkins, Ph.D.
Professor of Education
Director of Writing Program
abtperkins@lakeforest.edu 

 

 

 

The winning author earns academic distinction recognized at the Fall Honors Convocation. The winning essay is published here, and the winner receives a book prize.

The contest is open to all Lake Forest first-year students. Submissions must be papers written for classes at the College. Entries must be submitted no later than the last day of finals of the Spring semester.

First-Year Writing Prize 2012

Nikolai Leffner (pdf)

“The Grapes of Dionysus’s Wrath:  An Analysis of the Principal Characters and Themes in Euripides’s Tragedy, The Bacchae.” A paper written for Associate Professor Rui Zhu’s First Year Studies Course, Civilization and Barbarism.

First-Year Writing Prize 2012 (Honorable Mention)

Elizabeth Bulley (pdf)

“When Shakespeare’s ‘Women’ Wear the Pants:  An Examination of Rosalind and the Trouser Role in As You Like It.”  A paper written for Professor Roberts’ First Year Studies Course, Renaissance Women.

First-Year Writing Prize 2011

Candice Kosanke (pdf)

“Useless Objects”: Kipple and What It Represents.”  A paper written for Assistant Professor Josh Corey’s First-Year Studies course, Frankenstein: Myth of the Monstrous.

First-Year Writing Prize 2010

 Maya Beckles (pdf)

 ”The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare: The Relief of Tragicomedy through Leontes and Autolycus,” A paper written for Associate Professor Richard Pettengill’s Shakespeare and Theater course.

First-Year Writing Prize 2010

 Emily Thomas (pdf)

“Oda: An Extraordinary Example of a Medieval Woman’s Religious Authority and Economic Power.”  A paper written for Associate Professor Anna Jones’ Women in Medieval Christianity First-Year Studies course.

First-Year Writing Prize 2009

Maria Zawadowicz (pdf)

“Scientific Method in Medicine: Bringing Unity to Research and Clinical Decision-Making.”  A paper written in Associate Professor Lori Del Negro’s Chemistry and Medicine First-Year Studies course.

First-Year Writing Prize 2009 (Honorable Mention)

Ellen Shipitalo (pdf)

“Power and the Causes of Unequal Distribution in The Tempest and Twelfth Night.”  A paper written for Professor Richard Mallette’s Shakespeare course.

First-Year Writing Prize 2008

 Kathryn Duncan (pdf)

“Isabella d’Este:  Woman in Charge.”  A paper written for Professor Roberts’ Women in Art History First-Year Studies course.