Rhetoric & Writing Program Dominates
Shanklin Awards
Elizabeth Fleitz, a second-year
student in the Rhetoric & Writing PhD
Program received the 2007 Shanklin Award for Excellence in Graduate Research
in the Arts and Humanities. Her submission was a paper titled "The Grammar
of Abortion: A Pentadic Analysis of Pro-Choice Rhetoric," which she wrote
in Professor Emeritus John Makay’s graduate seminar on Rhetorical Criticism
(COMS 601) during the fall semester of 2006. Elizabeth would probably be glad
to show you the framed Shanklin Award certificate that accompanied the award
check she received on April 27.
This is the second consecutive year that the Arts and Humanities Shanklin
Award was won by a student in the Rhetoric & Writing PhD Program. Christine
Denneker received the Shanklin last May, at the same ceremony at which another
R&W PhD Program student, Inez Schaecterle (now an assistant professor at
Buena Vista University in Iowa) received the 2006 BGSU Outstanding Dissertaton
Award.
In the 2007 competition, both finalists for the Shanklin Award for Excellence
in Graduate Research were R&W Program students. Angela Zimmann’s
submission was a paper she developed with the help of Dr.
Sue Carter Wood in Rhetoric of Written Discourse (ENG 724). Angela also presented
the paper, "A Positive Revolt: Pirates in the Pulpit--A Feminist Alternative
to Abandoning the Rhetorical Space of the Pulpit In the Christian Church" at
the 2007 meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
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Fall issues of Rhetoric & Writing Notes feature news about current students
and Spring issues feature alumni news. See Issue 14, Fall
2006 for additional
student news.
