The Writing Showcase offers WRIT students many opportunities.
Students who participate in the Showcase
- Gain experience sharing their work and knowledge in a professional environment
- Learn from and share ideas with peers
- Practice rhetorical strategies by adapting their work to different contexts and in different genres
- Receive a certificate for participation and develop their résumés
- Have a chance to win one of three $100 prizes for the top three presentations (Prizes sponsored in part by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship)
What Kinds of Presentations are Featured?
Students who participate in the Writing Showcase will create digital presentations to be uploaded to a website created specifically for the Writing Showcase. Presentations for on-campus Showcases usually fall into two categories (poster presentations and panel/slideshow presentations), but the online Writing Showcases offers many other possibilities, and students are invited to imagine and propose many kinds of ways of sharing their work with others online. Possible formats include, but are not limited to, the following:
- A digital version of a poster, with captions, a brief video, or other annotations to represent the discussion they would provide in a brief poster presentation
- A picture of a physical poster they make, with similar captions, video, and/or annotations
- An infographic (with captions, video, and/or other annotations)
- A slideshow presentation
- A brief video, for those
who were/ are interested in giving a more “traditional” presentation