Robert Daniel Prize in Expository Writing

COMPETITION RULES:

1. The competition is open to freshmen enrolled in the College for the academic year.
2. An entry should be a piece of expository prose of approximately 5-10 pages which has been submitted as a written assignment for a course in the College.
3. Essays will be judged on development of thought, clarity, style, organization, and mechanics.
4. Entrants are permitted any assistance (e.g., from the instructor, tutors, classmates, or secondary material) available to everyone working on the same assignment.
5. Essays must be typed and submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx) via email. Please include the name of the author and the course in which the essays was written in the email; submissions will be anonymized before being sent to the judges for consideration.

JUDGING:

1. Instructors of classes open to freshmen are entitled to one nomination for each of these classes.
2. A nominated essay and the written assignment to which it responds must be in the hands of the Director of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum by Jan. 15 for essays submitted during the Advent Semester, and by June 15 for essays submitted during the Easter Semester.
3. 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. These prizes for expository writing are given in memory of Robert Woodham Daniel, a Sewanee alumnus who was for many years Professor of English and Chairman of the Department of English at Kenyon College.

PAST WINNERS:

2017

• 1‌st Prize
• 2nd Prize
• 3rd Prize

2016

• 1‌st Prize
• 2nd Prize A
• 2nd Prize B
• 3rd Prize

2015

• 1st Prize
• 2nd Prize
• 3rd Prize