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New prize to honor, award best collaborative writing

Students know outstanding writing can earn them good grades and career opportunities. Now, top-notch writing can put money in the pockets of KU students.

The Chancellor's Writing Prize will award $1,000 each to one undergraduate and one graduate student who have consulted and collaborated with a faculty member and a KU Writing Center consultant to improve his or her writing process and produce an outstanding original composition. The annual award was established in 2007 by Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway to encourage excellence in writing, acknowledge the importance of consultation from faculty and the KU Writing Center and promote writing across KU's curriculum.

To enter, students must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student at KU during the spring semester of an academic year. Only writing created to meet specific course requirements in a KU department or program during summer or fall 2007 or spring 2008 is eligible. Theses and dissertations do not qualify.

The deadline for submissions in this year's contest is 5 p.m. June 2.

For more information on the prize, visit www.writing.ku.edu or contact Terese Thonus, director of the KU Writing Center, at tthonus @ku.edu. Prizes will be awarded annually on Oct. 10 in commemoration of the date the KU Writing Center was established. This year, the inaugural award will coincide with the center's 10th anniversary.

Entries should be submitted as a two-part portfolio. The first should contain one piece of writing in at least three drafts, one reflecting collaboration with the instructor and one showing collaboration with the KU Writing Center. The final draft should be no less than 2,000 words in length. The second part of the portfolio must include two reflective essays of no more than 500 words each, one by the student, the other by the instructor, discussing the contribution of the center to the furtherance of the writing. Portfolios should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word attachments to writing@ku.edu.

The winners will be determined by a prize board made up of representatives from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, two KU schools, the Edwards Campus, the KU Medical Center and Student Success.

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