Amanda Dick named a 2016 UW-Whitewater writing award winner

2016 May 11

Amanda Dick, a senior English and history major from Kenosha, Wis., was named a winner in the 2016 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater University Writing Awards.

Winners were honored at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 26, in the James R. Connor University Center Old Main Ballroom.

Dick won in the Research Paper category for the piece titled "A Ghost Behind the Camera: Esfir Shub's Great and Relatively Unknown Contributions to Cinema".

"Each year, the University Writing Awards Committee honors a select group of students whose writing has been identified by their professors as outstanding and worthy of special recognition," said Elizabeth Hachten, assistant dean of the College of Letters and Sciences.

Students are nominated by faculty members for this award for exemplifying their strong writing ability through a unique writing piece. This piece is selected from the students' coursework and then nominated into one of the many categories. Categories include creative writing, research papers, expository essays and many more.

"One of the most important skills that students develop in college is the ability to write well and UW-Whitewater students have many opportunities to practice this skill throughout their college career," said Hachten. "Their hard work, skill, and dedication to the craft of writing is inspiring to us all."