{"196881":{"#nid":"196881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC Undergraduate Writing Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile there were a number of excellent submissions, the winner of the William Gilmer Perry Award (for best essay written in an English 1101\/02 class) is Alan Dong, who wrote \u201cOn Happiness, Its Nature, and the Pursuit Thereof\u201d for Dr. Christine Hoffman\u0027s English 1101 class this past fall. Our reviewers praised Alan\u0027s essay for \u0022engaging the terms of happiness\/pleasure in creative ways,\u0022 allowing him to make \u0022a series of thoughtful and thought-provoking distinctions between terms and emotions we tend to take for granted.\u0022 They were particularly impressed with his ability to draw upon both literary and personal references throughout his argument, and they described his writing as \u0022vivacious and original.\u0022 As one reviewer put it in conclusion, \u0022two thumbs up!\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe winner of the James Dean Young Award (for best essay written by a STAC or CM major in an upper-level LMC class) is Stuart Collier, who wrote the essay \u201cCinephelia and Online Communities\u201d for an independent study conducted under Vinicius Navarro\u0027s supervision. Our reviewers unanimously gave Stuart\u0027s essay the highest scores possible, applauding his work because it makes \u0022a clear and convincing contribution to academic\/professional discourse\u0022 through the creation of a \u0022compelling historical narrative of cinephilia as co-developing with changing film and communication media.\u0022 They were particularly impressed with both the \u0022impressive\u0022 amount of research Stuart performed and the clarity of his writing which made this, as one reviewer put it, a most \u0022pleasurable read.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECongratulations to\u0026nbsp; Alan and Stuart--as well as Christine and Vinicius--on their accomplishments. There were many excellent submissions this year, but both Alan and Stuart\u0027s essays were indeed clear winners.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alan Dong Wins for best essay written in English 1101\/1102 and Stuart Collier for the best essay written by a STAC or CM student in an upper-level LMC class."}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2013-03-05 11:05:43","changed_gmt":"2022-05-25 17:28:15","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1579","name":"CM"},{"id":"60431","name":"James Dean Young Award"},{"id":"169358","name":"stac"},{"id":"60441","name":"William Gilmer Perry Award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["lisa.yaszek@lmc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}