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Outstanding Sustainability Essay Contest

University Writing and the Academic Sustainability Program seek submissions for the Outstanding Sustainability Essay Award. This award recognizes exceptional student writing in prose with a focus on sustainability. The essay prompts reflect themes in Auburn’s Common Book for 2024, The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin. As you reflect, use the Sustainability Compass to…

ContributorSeptember 26, 2024

Guest Posts Sustainability Writing Contest

Eastern Grip

By Savanna Wooten* “I can’t. I’ll be in California.” For the better part of twenty years, this was my braggadocious excuse for missing holiday parties and summer birthdays. My way of letting others know I was trading humidity for heat, relief for “real” mountains, NASCAR for culture, y’all for you…

ContributorApril 4, 2024

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Student Sustainability Essay Award

Photo courtesy of Becki Retzlaff The Academic Sustainability Program and the Writing Center are sponsoring a sustainability essay award. The award recognizes an essay that reflects on the holistic nature of sustainability and analyzes the relationship between self and the physical environment. Winners will receive an award, a gift card…

ContributorJanuary 24, 2023

University Writing Workshop

This workshop offers strategies to help participants read and write literature reviews. During the session, participants will learn how an understanding of narrative structure and effective use of transitional words and phrases can help map out ideas and write literature reviews that are clear, accurate and engaging. Participants will have…

ContributorOctober 16, 2020