Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the staff of the Saunders Wrillng Center (Emily Kirk,
Jose Martinez, Jill Rudolph. and Lisa Suarez) for their participation in the judging
process. Our adviser. Dr. Lisa Birnbaum, deserves special recognition for all her
editing and guidance in helping make this project successful once again. Our
publication wouldn't be possible without the support of the Freshman Composition
faculty and everyone who shared their work with us. The many talented writers at
the University of Tampa deserve more credit than we can give.
The staff of the Saunders Writing Center solicits work for the Wordsmith
Awards from students in all Freshman Composition courses. though this collection
represents essays from only two of the courses. English 10l and 102. The first piece.
a descriptive paragraph which was awarded a Special Mention. ls an example of the
briefer writing exercises often assigned in English 101.
