The Elena Baldwin Prize for Outstanding English 130 Student

In the spring of 2006 Elena Baldwin was enrolled in English 130: Academic Writing and she was an exemplary student in our program.  Her professor as well as her peers remembers her as a model for the kind of curious, engaged, committed student we try to foster through the Academic Writing Program.  Elena passed away the following summer while teaching English abroad, and we in the program decided to honor her life and her scholarly work. 

This semester we are inaugurating The Elena Baldwin Prize for an Outstanding 130 Student.  The prize will be awarded each academic year to a student who shows a passion for research and for writing, whose writing shows improvement throughout the semester, and who is a generous, engaged member of their class’s writing community.

Nomination packets from English 130 teachers will be accepted during Finals Week of each semester.  Notification of a winner will happen in May, at the close of each academic year.  The prize includes a gift certificate to the A.S. Bookstore and a brief award ceremony at a Writing Program Meeting. 

Nomination packets must include three items:

• A portfolio of student writing
• A written statement from the faculty member about the student’s writing and contribution to the class’s writing community,
• A written statement from the student about their experience in 130 as a writer and a member of a writing/research community

Please submit materials to:

Kim Jaxon
Academic Writing Program Instructor
222 Taylor Hall
kjaxon@csuchico.edu

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