2024 Multimodal Writing Contest winners honored at awards ceremony

The Center for Writing Excellence recently hosted an award ceremony to celebrate the winners of the fifth annual Multimodal Writing Contest. This contest, which this year awarded prizes to entries produced in 2023, was created to emphasize the value of multimodal writing to students’ academic and professional lives.

The Multimodal Writing Contest invites students from all schools across the university to share their original multimedia works, which can be created for academic or professional purposes. The annual event welcomes current undergraduate and graduate students to participate. Submissions are invited by category according to the university’s schools or experiences: Arts and Sciences, Business, Communications, Education, Health Sciences, Law, CORE Curriculum and Capstone, Student Life, and Internships.

Each year, individuals and groups of students submit a varies of multimodal work such as music, podcasts, websites, infographics, interactive media, etc.

Kara McKinley

Anna Vassallo

Delaney Guidi

Jenna Manderioli

In March 2024, the Center for Writing Excellence held an award ceremony in Belk Library to announce and celebrate this year’s winners, as follows:

Campus Involvement

• Winner and overall Grand Prize Winner: James Hemmingway, with “Celebrating 10 Years of the Gender4 and LGBTQIA Center.”
• Runner Up: Kara McKinley, with “The Kernodle Center: The Heat of Civic Life.”

School of Arts and Sciences

• Winner: Anna Vassallo, with “Police Officer Interrogation Tactics: Adolescent Suspects and Suspects with Mental Illness.”

• Runner-Up: Delaney Guidi with “The Muffler.”

School of Communications

• Winner: Claire Cohen, with “Somewhere Between Pigs and Anchovies.”
• Runner Up: Jenna Manderioli, with “Finding Folk: The Festival of Discovery.”

School of Education

• Winner: Mary Heffernan with “Outdoor Education: The Lack of Access in Fairfield County.”
• Runner Up: Alex Miller, Nick Bush, and Chaney Patton, with “How Does Dual Tasking Effect Gait in Individuals Who Use Prosthetics.”

School of Health Sciences

• Winner: Kyle Lambert and Allison Russo, with “Skin Deep.”

School of Law

• Winner: Jennifer Benavides, with “Interview with Dean Kramer.”

The Center for Writing Excellence would like to thank this year’s judges: Associate Professor Ben Hannam, Assistant Professor Travis Maynard, Alison Van Norman and Dan Reis. The CWE also thanks Major LeGoullon ’24 for photographs of the event, and students from Paula Rosinki’s MMA4600 Multimodal Authoring class for producing a draft of this Today at Elon article.