The SLC Writing Contest journal will be published annually as a collection of the winners and honourable mentions of the SLC undergraduate writing contest. The Writing Contest journal is intended to serve as a database of model papers for current undergraduate students and to represent writing across the disciplines.

Announcements

Current Issue

Vol. 7 (2024): 2023 Writing Contest Winners

Group photo of the 2023 writing contest winners from the closing celebration

Winners of the 2023 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest

Published: 2024-05-06

First Year Category (0-29 credits)

Civic Engagement

Perspectives on Active Citizen Participation in Political Life

Carmen Campbell
PDF

On Social Host Liability

Javier Burgos Oliva
PDF
Jaclyn Chan

Media Analysis of “Nosedive” (Black Mirror):

A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

Jaclyn Chan
PDF

The Rise Of Wooden Skyscrapers

Advocating the zoning of CLT-based skyscrapers in British Columbia

Rigyaju Tripathi
PDF
Alayna Hillier

Wedded Cages and Better Places

An Analysis of Central Metaphors Within Poems by Sylvia Plath & William Blake

Alayna Hillier
PDF

Middle Years Category (30-89 credits)

Sophia Herd

To what extent did Indigenous peoples manage clam gardens along the intertidal zone on the coast of British Columbia?

Sophia Herd
PDF

Black Media Literacy and the Pedagogy of Healing

Balqees Jama
PDF

It's Giving Syntactic Shift

Examining the Syntactic Pattern of It's Giving "X"

Christine Borillo
PDF
Nava Karimi

Karma Police, Arrest This Artist!

On Cancel Culture and "Deplatforming"

Nava Karimi
PDF
Olivia Yung

Like, Whatever

The Syntactic Evolution of a Morpheme

Olivia Yung
PDF

Fourth Year+ Category (90+ credits, including Honours)

Marian Miracles at Constantinople and Lepanto, 1422 and 1571

Isaac Schoeber
PDF
Nazafarin Esfandiari

Evaluating the Need for a National Pharmacare Program in Canada

Opportunities and Challenges

Nazafarin Esfandiari
PDF
Gabrielle Wong

Placemaking or placekeeping?

The dual role of the arts in the gentrification of Manhattan’s Chinatown

Gabrielle Wong
PDF

Plurilingual Prize Category (open to all undergrad students)

Nat Begg

Han Father, Minzu Children

Gender and Family in China’s Ethnic Governance

Nat Begg
PDF
Headshot of the author, Audrey Heath

Fireweed as a Gitxsan Clan!?

Audrey Heath
PDF
View All Issues