College Composition Awards and Deadlines
Each year the English Department showcases outstanding student writing in College Composition at Miami, a volume featuring student writing and information about College Composition at Miami. CCM publishes English Department Award compositions as well as other exemplary models of student writing. Papers submitted may be from English 111, 112, or 113 courses taught during the spring or fall semesters. Papers from Honors Core Courses taught in the English Department (English H 101) are also eligible.
To see the 2008 award winners, click here.
The Awards Committee considers essays in the following categories:
- Oxford Copy Shop Award
- For a reflective narrative essay.
- Miami Co-op Awards
- Two prizes of equal merit for explanatory or persuasive compositions.
- DuBois Book Store Award
- Miami University Book Store Award
- For literary analysis.
- Bedford / St. Martin’s Award
- For an outstanding digital composition (to be published on the Miami University Composition website).
Papers that do not fit into an award category will also be considered for publication in next year’s CCM. Examples of formal writing assignments from English 111, 112, and 113 are especially welcome; however, the committee accepts all genres for consideration in CCM. Please consider working with your instructor to revise and submit your work.
There are two deadlines. The deadline for AWARDS submissions is February 15. The deadline for CCM submissions is the last day of spring semester. You may submit a writing project for an award or you may submit it solely for consideration in CCM. Award-winning compositions are automatically published in CCM and/or online at www.muohio.edu/composition. All other submissions, including remaining awards entries, are considered by the CCM Editorial Staff for publication.
Guidelines for submission
For paper submissions
- Remove your instructor’s grades and comments. Papers should be typed, free of mechanical errors, and clearly legible for photocopying.
- Please include only the essay’s title and award category (if applicable) on the first page of a written essay. Include a completed and signed “permission to publish” form with the essay.
- Please make certain that your name, your title, and your instructor’s name appear clearly and only on the “permission to publish” form.
- Please sign, to verify that your essays are your own work and that any research is properly documented.
- Turn in the paper essay, along with an electronic file of the paper (MS Word doc), and completed “permission to publish” form to the Composition Program office, 356A Bachelor. Use a separate “permission to publish” form for each submission.
For electronic only submissions
- Download a copy of the “Permission to Publish” form. Fill this out and paste into the body of an email, addressed to composition@muohio.edu.
- Please make certain that your name, your title, and your instructor’s name appear clearly and only on the “permission to publish” form.
- Send the essay’s title, award category, and your name in the body of the email, along with the completed permission form, and attach the paper as an MSWord document. The paper should have no identifying information, except for its title. For a digital composition, put the URL or live link in the body of the email, along with the information above.
2008 Student Writing Award recipients
- Chris Mull: Another Brick in the Wall
- Oxford Copy Shop Award
- Rachel Nourse: The Rhetoric of Greek Life
- Miami University Bookstore Award
- Yang (Vivian) Yang: Legos Are Just for Kids
- International Student Essay Award
- Maddie Teren: Paper or Plastic…or Neither??
- Follett’s Miami Co–op Award
- Alexandra Smith: Water War: The Battle Between Ethics and Employment
- Follett’s Miami Co-op Award
- Stephen Kostyo: A History of the Legal Standing of the Definition of Marriage
- Bedford/St. Martin’s Award for digital composition
- Mary Hannah Sanders: Round and Round and Round We Go
- DuBois Bookstore Award