Writing & Linguistics Department
Department of Writing
& Linguistics Awards
For Students:
Brittany “Ally”
Harbuck Memorial Scholarship (3597)
Criteria: Recipient should be a Georgia Southern rising sophomore, junior,
or senior majoring in Creative Writing who has maintained a minimum 3.0
grade point average. The recipient must be nominated by professors in the
Department of Writing & Linguistics based on samples of writings produced in
class. The award should be given on a competitive basis. Previous recipients
may submit new work for consideration each year.
2009-10 award: $750.00
For Faculty:
Dorothy Smith Golden
Award for Teaching Excellence (3495)
Criteria:
To recognize for excellence in educational values, sensitivity to and
concern for students’ level and learning progress, and integrating the idea
that learning is a complex process incorporating what students know with
what they do with that knowledge. The award will recognize demonstrated
excellence in performance and/or measurable improvement as a teacher in the
Writing & Linguistics Department.
2009-10 award: $1,000
Dorothy Smith Golden
Faculty Fellowship (3495)
Criteria:
Award will be presented to a faculty member who is recognized for scholarly
activity that furthers the mission and goals of the Department of Writing &
Linguistics. The Fellowship will provide a minimum of $4,000. The award
should be used to allow the faculty member to take time off for research and
independent study.
2009-10 award: $4,000
Writing & Linguistics
Department’s Mission:
Writing and Linguistics supports Georgia Southern University's mission of
producing graduates "who are knowledgeable, clear-thinking, articulate, and
effective in problem-solving." Toward that end, our faculty aspires to
excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. As scholars, poets,
essayists, fiction writers, business writers and former journalists, we
practice what we teach and routinely revitalize our pedagogies with the
enrichment that we have gained from our creativity, research, and
scholarship. Because we are part of a "teaching first" university, all of us
teach first-year composition as well as courses in our areas of
specialization. Ninety-five percent or more of our first-year classes are
taught by full-time professors. Writing is a context-specific activity
shaped by the writer's place, time, subject, audience, and purpose, and that
writing leads to enhanced ways of knowing and being in the world. Because we
know that excellent writing skills, language awareness, and technology are
vitally important in our radically changing culture, we are committed to
providing a writing, linguistics, and technology program that will prepare
students for the changing conditions of education and professional work in
the 21st century.