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Nominating Students for the Ward Prize
The Paul Ward '25 Prize in Writing
for First-Year Students
Each year the Writing Program solicits nominations for the Paul Ward '25 Prize in Writing for First-Year Students.
The $500 first prize and two $250 second prizes are presented annually to the first-year students whose writing best exemplifies, in the words of the bequest, "the use of basic English as the writer's most necessary tool: precise and exact usage of words, exact meanings, phrases expressed lucidly and gracefully."
Every student whose writing is submitted will be recognized at a presentation reception on the Friday afternoon of Family Weekend next October, and will be invited to train as a peer writing tutor and/or first-year seminar mentor for academics and writing. Please help identify and encourage academic excellence in the Class of 2015 by sending a copy of your first-year students' best papers to Mary Ellen Bertolini (mbertoli@middlebury.edu) or CTLR, Davis Family Library, Suite 225). Call (x3182) if you have any questions about eligible work.