Nine students and three instructors have received prizes in Cornell's Freshman Writing Seminar program for work produced during the fall of 1995. The program was started in 1967 to improve the quality of writing across the curriculum and is administered by Cornell's John S. Knight Writing Program, which offers more than 100 freshman writing seminars in over 30 departments and programs each semester.
The awards, recipients and winning essays are listed below.
The James E. Rice Jr. Prize, $150 award given for excellent expository writing in a freshman writing seminar, sponsored by the Adelphic Cornell Educational Fund:
·Sam Hammer '99, for "Reading Sixteenth-Century Italy Through Michelangelo's Last Judgement"
·Louie Hao-Yih Yang '99, for "Reassemblage: The Enlightenment of Democracy"
The Gertrude Spencer Prize, given jointly to a student and instructor ($350 awarded to each) for work that culminated in the student's finished essay:
·Kate Farrell '99, for "A Paradox in Education"
·Miranda Paton, instructor, for "A Para
dox in Education"
·Kathleen Brookfield '99, for "'Creation of the Whites': A Yuchi Resistance to
White Conquest"
·Bethany Schneider, instructor, for "'Creation of the Whites': A Yuchi Resis
tance to White Conquest"
The Adelphic Award, $150 prize given for the best essay written in a freshman
writing seminar by a student whose native language is other than English; sponsored by the Adelphic Cornell Educational Fund:
·Gloria Mieun Byun '99, for "Disguised Evil"
The Elmer Johnson Markham Prize, $150 prize given for excellent expository writing in a freshman writing seminar:
·Louisa Bennion '99, for "Narrative Focus and the Momentum of Images in Joyce's Araby and The Dead"
John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Prize, $350 award given to the instructor submitting the best sequence of writing assignments for a freshman writing seminar:
·Jeannie Morefield, instructor, for the assignment sequence
"Analyzing Ideology and Making Critical Decisions"
Expository Writing Prize, $150 award given each semester for the best student
paper written in English 288 (fall) and English 289 (spring):
·Valerie L. Waye '97, for "An Exercise
in Frustration"
·Todd Bournet '96, honorable mention, for "Subverting the Fascist Aesthetic"
Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship, provides recipient with a full year of support to create and teach a new freshman writing seminar and to devote himself or herself to the study and practice of teaching composition within and beyond the context of his or her discipline:
·Paul C. Jeffries, graduate student, for the freshman writing seminar "Ways the World Is Weird: Philosophical Lessons of Modern Physics"