Braun Writing Award
Student Submission Form

Deadline: March 16, 2012
Please print and complete this form; attach it to your work and submit it to the professor you have asked to nominate your work. Work must be submitted in both print and electronic versions (CD preferred) to be eligible for judging. This form may not be submitted online, as a signature is required.

The Ruth & Ted Braun Awards for Writing Excellence have been established to create incentives for outstanding student writing and opportunities for student writers to be recognized and published. The Braun Awards will recognize exemplary writing in the 9 Award Categories listed below.
Please indicate the category in which you are submitting:

General Education (all departments; please submit assignment with paper)
College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences--Social Sciences and related Departments (upper level courses in Criminal Justice, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Sociology)
College of Business
College of Education
College of Health and Human Services
(Departments:  Health Sciences, Kinesiology, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work)
College of Science, Engineering, and Technology
Multimedia - Undergraduate
Graduate Programs
Multimedia - Graduate

Student Name:      Student Number:
Student Phone Number:                    E-mail Address:
Complete Mailing Address:
Name of Faculty Nominator:
Title of Work:
Date Work Was Written:

I certify that I am currently a student in good standing at SVSU; that this submission is my own original work, completed since January 1, 2011; that the paper/work has been appropriately nominated by a member of the faculty; that the work is complete and has been deemed suitable for publication (paper may be revised for a general audience); that the work has not been published previously; that the work is being submitted in both print and electronic versions; that I will edit the paper as necessary prior to publication (deadline 31 May 2012).  (Note:  Honors theses, Faculty Association Scholarship projects, SRCI proposals, senior design projects, capstone projects, and the like are not eligible for nomination.)

Signature _______________________________________ Date ____________________________

Note: When submitting your paper for consideration, please consider that the reviewers may not be experts in the field addressed by your paper. Thus it would be wise to revise/edit your paper prior to submission, to make it suitable for a general audience.

Awards in the amount of $250 may be made in each of the nine categories. Awards will be given at the Writing Awards Reception, W April 11, 2012. Publication of the winning papers will take place in two forms:

  • a print publication for local distribution
  • an online publication that links from this website.