ROBERT WOODHAM DANIEL FRESHMAN PRIZE FOR EXPOSITORY WRITING
The Daniel Essay Prize is open to any first year students whose essay is nominated by a faculty member. Faculty members may nominate one essay from each course open to first year students. These prizes for expository writing are given in memory of Robert Woodham Daniel, a Sewanee alumnus who was for many years a Professor of English and Chairman of the Department of English at Kenyon College.
Competition Rules:
- The competition is open to freshmen enrolled in the College for the academic year.
- An entry should be a piece of expository prose of approximately 1,000—1,250 words which has been submitted in response to a written assignment. Exceptions to this length rule may be made for essays or assignments as is appropriate.
- Essays will be judged on development of thought, clarity, style, organization, and mechanics.
- Entrants are permitted any assistance (e.g., from the instructor, or tutors, or classmates, or secondary material) available to everyone working on the same assignment.
- Essays must be double spaced, and submitted as a Word document. The student's name and relevant class information should be included (class number, professor), along with the title of the paper.
- Instructors of classes open to freshmen are entitled to one nomination for each of these classes.
- A nominated essay and the written assignment to which it responds must be sent to the Director of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum by Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, for essays submitted during the Advent Semester, and by Friday, June 15, 2018, for essays submitted during the Easter Semester.
- The anonymity of authors will be preserved as fully as possible in the final judging, which will be done in July by a representative faculty panel.
Prizes:
The author of the best essay will receive $150 prize money, Second prize will be $100 and third prize will be $50. The first prize winner will also be acknowledged during the Fall Convocation.
