Writing Across the Curriculum sponsors an annual writing contest for students that features writing from their major courses. Two winners receive $150 each and their essays are published in the following year's freshman composition handbook.

Students are nominated by faculty members, who select student writing that exemplifies good writing in the discipline or major. Winners are chosen by a committee of faculty members.

Read the winning essays from the 2009 contest (Adobe PDF):

Prize winning essay one: "The Wheel Turns On: Perpetual Orphanage, Imagination, and Truth in Light in August," by R. Sam Chaney

Prize winning essay two: "Causative Factors of Eating Disorders," by Heather Koning

Honorable mention essay one: Untitled, by Hannah Wilkinson

Honorable mention essay two: "What is the Attraction to Solar Roads?" by Jean-Marc Beaudoin