{"id":5356,"date":"2019-03-21T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=news&p=5356"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:56:04","slug":"9th-knights-write-showcase","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/news\/9th-knights-write-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Knights Write Showcase celebrates exceptional student writing across disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 9th annual Knights Write Showcase<\/a><\/u>, a celebration of first and second-year student writing, was held at the Pegasus Ballroom on February 11, 2019. Hosted by the Department of Writing & Rhetoric<\/a><\/u>, the annual Knights Write Showcase demonstrates how writing and communication is important in every field, with the winners and panelists hailing from a variety of majors.<\/p>\n

What do the winners have in common? Strong writing skills that they honed in either ENC 1101<\/a><\/u> or ENC 1102<\/a><\/u>, UCF\u2019s first and second-year General Education English composition courses. The students were recognized for their writing and poster displays, with some getting the chance to talk about their work in faculty-moderated student panels.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s showcase had two student panels: \u201cCulture and Communities of Writing\u201d and \u201cFinding the Story: Student Perspectives on Writing and Research.\u201d The panels had students discuss topics such as LGBTQ+ media, model rocketry at UCF, iPhone journaling and culturally diverse literacy. Students in UCF\u2019s General Education composition courses are encouraged to write about topics that interest them, which leads to the wide range of subjects covered in these panels.<\/p>\n

Along with student panels, the showcase puts on an awards ceremony to recognize the best poster displays and the essays published in Stylus: A Journal of First-Year Writing<\/a><\/u>. Published biannually by the Department of First-Year Writing<\/a><\/u>, Stylus accepts essays from students who took either ENC 1101 or ENC 1102. Each issue features only 5 to 7 submissions, usually selected from a pool of around 60. This year, Provost Elizabeth Dooley continued former UCF president John C. Hitt\u2019s tradition of awarding three students published in Stylus with the President John C. Hitt Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing. Congratulations to the winners below!<\/p>\n

President John C. Hitt Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing<\/p>\n