Writing Sample: STC Newsletter, Summer 2007

Here’s an article I wrote for the Society for Technical Communication Summer 2007 newsletter. The subject: to announce the winner of the annual Donald Cunningham scholarship.  I don’t think it was my most “ambitious” piece of writing (save that for my seminar papers and portfolio defense during my last year of graduate school), but I think I achieved my aims: it is a short piece that showcases the work of the scholarship winner, as well as the philanthropic spirit of the STC, and the academic rigor of Auburn University. It is the kind of writing I would be happy to do for a NPO, community, or arts organization.

Looking back, I think the writing could be a lot tighter, but I like the introductory sentence a lot. When I wrote this, I had just recently finished writing a series of literary papers, so I was prone to more flourishes in my writing than usual.