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Friday, May 29, 2015

Advanced Expository Writing Success Stories

Director of the Writing Center Mary Beth Simmons is pleased to announce the following good news about students from her fall 2014 "Advanced Expository Writing" class:
--Carl Cacela's essay "The Buzzing Space" was a finalist for the 2015 Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest.
--Brianna Sacco's essay "The C Word" has been published in The Write Place at the Write Time.  Click here to read the essay.
--Lauren Clem's essay "The Empanada Theory" will be published in Graze Magazine.
--Katy Binder's essay "Time on the Water" will be published in Outrageous Fortune.

Carl is a current Villanova English major.  Lauren just graduated as a major.