English
2015-2016 Winners
In February 2016, the following essays written in 2015 were selected as winners of the Leland Essay Contest to be honored at English Awards Night in March 2016. Click on the links to read each of the winning essays!
ENG 100
First place: "Crazy Coach Carter" by Megan Hilt (Instructor: Jacque Wilson-Jordan)
Second place: "A Day to Remember" by Torrill Marshall (Instructor: Jacque Wilson-Jordan)
Third place: "Law Enforcement Autoethnography" by Kayla Woods (Instructor: Barbara Harroun)
ENG 180
First place: "Sharing Worlds" by Aaron Saenz (Instructor: Jo Chapman)
Second place: "Hardship & Triumph" by Filip Czarnecki (Instructor: Magdelyn Helwig)
Third place: "Journey to America" by Evangelia Zguri (Instructor: Rebekah Buchanan)
ENG 280
First place: "The Double-Edged Sword of Conventional and Organic Farming" by Rachael Sampson (Instructor: Timothy Helwig)
Second place: "The White Plague" by Jasbir Kaur Bhangal (Instructor: Carol Bollin)
Third place: "Scandalous TV: How Scandal and Olivia Pope Are Redefining Black Women on Prime Time" by Christine Jordan (Instructor: Timothy Helwig)
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