Writing Excellence Award Winners 2008-2009

Category 1 (WRT 160: Composition II)
Lauren Kenaan, "OU Orientation: Steps Toward Improvement"
Jared Allen, "Efficacy of Treatment Options"
Jeffrey Wenskay, "The True Meaning of an Act"
Patricia Nicole Deering, "Urban Forestry: An Important Component of Every Community"

Categoy 2 (WRT 150: Composition I):
Dat Nguyen, "The Ambiguous Smile"
Jesse Williams, "A Year of Nightmares"
Samida Saric, "Happily Ever After"
Hillary Bockneck, "A Moment Without Fear"

Category 4 (Social Sciences)
Jason Sotzen, "Dread Talk: The Language of Reggae"
Michele Maxfield, "The Economic Benefits of a More Literate Workforce"
Robert Nicholas, "Culture and the World in Which we Live"
     
Category 5 (Humanities and Upper-level Writing)
Tara  Fugate, "Escaping my  Escape"
Natalie Mandziuk, "The Power of Observation: Naturalist Remnants in Emile Zola's Photographic Portraits"
Andrew Kozlowski, "Forged in Fire: How Dante's Inferno Builds the Regime of God"