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FASS students come out on top in SLC Undergraduate Writing Contest
Nine FASS students successfully emerged as winners and honourable mentions in the 2023 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest. Congratulations!
Open to all undergraduate students, the contest is run by the Student Learning Commons (SLC) at SFU Library. Entries were assessed by a panel of judges comprised of SFU faculty, retired SFU faculty, and writing specialist staff members. All contest winners and honourable mentions will be published in an open access writing contest journal.
First Year Category (0-29 credits)
First Prize
Carmen Campbell
Political Science
Civic Engagement: Perspectives on Active Citizen Participation in Political Life
Honourable Mention
Alayna Hillier
English
Wedded Cages and Better Places: An Analysis of Central Metaphors Within Poems by Sylvia Plath & William Blake
Middle Years Category (30-89 credits)
First Prize
Olivia Yung
Linguistics; Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Like, Whatever: The Syntactic Evolution of a Morpheme
Second Prize
Nava Karimi
Philosophy
Karma Police, Arrest This Artist! – On Cancel Culture and “Deplatforming”
Honourable Mentions
Christine Borillo
Linguistics
It’s Giving Syntactic Shift: Examining the Syntactic Pattern of It’s Giving “X”
Balqees Jama
Communication; International Studies
Black Media Literacy and the Pedagogy of Healing
Fourth Year+ Category (90+ credits)
Second prize
Isaac Schoeber
History
Marian Miracles at Constantinople and Lepanto, 1422 and 1571
Plurilingual Prize
The papers in this category showcase the writer's skills across languages and writing strategies. In particular, this prize focuses on the writer's plurilingual approach to writing and their incorporation of multiple languages and/or multiple forms of English into their writing.
First prize
Nat Begg
Sociology and Anthropology
Han Father, Minzu Children: Gender and Family in China’s Ethnic Governance
Second prize
Audrey Heath
Communication; Indigenous Studies
Fireweed as a Gitxsan Clan!?