Winners of the 2025 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest

Winners of the 2024 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest

Winners of the 2023 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest

Winners of the 2022 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest

Winners of the 2021 Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest

Upper and Lower Division Category winners and honourable mentions from the 2020 SLC Writing Contest. 

Papers from the winners of the 2019 SLC Writing Contest

Winning submissions and honourable mentions in the Upper Division and Lower Division categories of the 2018 SLC Writing Contest. 

2017 was the inaugural year of the Student Learning Commons writing contest.

We had two categories in this contest: An Open Undergraduate Category and an SLC Peer Educator Category.

There were three prize winners and two honourable mentions in the Open Undergraduate category and one prize winner and two honourable mentions in the Peer category.

This journal collects all of the winning submissions and is intended to serve as the beginning of a database of model papers for strong undergraduate writing.