Fall Submission Deadline

• Friday, December 11 @ 3 p.m. (the last day of finals week).

Manuscript Submission

• Submit a hard copy of your manuscript along with a completed entry form and the assignment sheet (if available). Please remove your name from the manuscript; in other words, your name should appear only on the entry form. Winning submissions must be available in MS-Word format. All entries from GWRTC 103 classes will automatically be submitted to e-Vision as well.
• Submit your hard-copy entry by placing it in the Write On box located in Harrison Hall 2276C, or mail it to WRITE ON, c/o Dr. Mark Thomas, Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication, MSC 2103, Harrisonburg VA 22807.
• Questions? Contact Dr. Mark Thomas at thomasme@jmu.edu.
• Winners will be notified in April 2010.

Entry Forms

• See the menu up above on the left.

Judging

• JMU faculty read and screen all submissions.
• Off-campus judges—professors, editors, experts in their field—select and rank the winning submissions.

 

About the TENTH ANNUAL
Write On! Contest

 

Entering the 2009-2010 Contest

• JMU's Write On! competition accepts academic writing (formal and informal essays, research papers, reports...) produced in JMU classes from Spring 2009 through Spring 2010.
• Each student may enter one piece of writing.
• There are no length restrictions for submissions.

Divisions

• Freshmen and Sophomores
        Fine Arts
        Humanities
        Sciences
        Social Sciences
• Juniors and Seniors
        Fine Arts
        Humanities
        Sciences
        Social Sciences
• Graduate Students

Awards

• An awards ceremony honoring winners will be held in April 2010.
• CASH prizes—$200 for first place winners and $100 for second place winners—in each of the nine divisions above.
• Other deserving winning entries will be recognized with Honorable Mention awards.

Publication

• Winners and Honorable Mentions will be recognized here on the Write On! website.
• Winning submissions will be published here on the Write On! website in May 2010.

 

Sponsored by the College of Arts & Letters Dean’s Office
& the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication