To: Undergraduate Coordinators, Associate Chairs, Chairs
From: Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Committee
Date: February 3, 2004
Re: Recognition and Funding for Student Writing Awards
The Writing Across the Curriculum Committee would like to recognize outstanding undergraduate writers and writing in the majors. We know that many departments give an award(s) based on student written work. For example, departments may currently give awards based on poster presentations, a capstone portfolio, thesis, paper, or even written performance in a series of courses. The committee would like to add our recognition and financial support to students whose work is already being recognized by the department. We also want to make the university community aware of your efforts in making excellence in writing a priority.
If your department does not currently have in place any award based on undergraduate student writing and you would like to institute one, respond by email to Terry Zawacki, WAC Director, at tzawacki@gmu.edu, and she will be happy to tell you what other departments are doing and to suggest ways you might construct an award to recognize outstanding student writers in your department or program.
In joining with the department or program, the WAC Committee will add some financial support to awards, based on available funding. We will also promote the student writer and the department on the Writing Across the Curriculum website, the Writing @ Center Newsletter, and the Mason Gazette.
If your department already gives an award(s) based on student written work or is in the process of creating an award, please let us know:
You may fill this information in and send it by email or campus mail to Stanley Zoltek, Chair of the WAC Committee, at szoltek@gmu.edu or c/o the Writing Center at MSN 2G8. We’ll contact you with follow-up information once we receive your form.