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On
April 11th, PWR enjoyed a wonderful Innovative Research Award
(IRA) Celebration in West Lagunita’s Eucalipto Lounge. The
awards were designed to highlight innovative and creative research
in PWR 1 courses.
The
winners of the autumn IRA were as follows:
- Emily Abrash,
Allison Kopp, and Sonal Mittal: “The Stanford Labor Action
Coalition and Beyond: The Struggle for a Living Wage”
(Melissa Leavitt, instructor)
- Myles Lam:
“At Crossroads in CourseWork: Evaluation and Application”
(Chris Gerben, instructor)
- Alisha
Tolani: “Collaboration as an Effective Solution to Sex
Trafficking” (Donna Hunter, instructor)
To supplement
these awards, and honor excellent work in PWR 2 courses, PWR held
its inaugural Oral Presentation of Research Award (OPRA) Celebration
on May 24 in the Stanford Writing Center. The OPRA recognizes
PWR 2 students for oral presentations of research that present
a compelling well-researched argument that is delivered with a
persuasive, professional ethos and effective media aids. Three
winners (individuals or groups)—to be selected by a committee
of PWR instructors and administrators from among those students
nominated by their instructors—will reprise their presentations
at a Research Forum in Winter 2007. Winners will receive trophies
and individual books [or CDs/DVDs] selected by their instructors.
The
winners of the inaugural OPRA were as follows:
- Lauren
Finzer, “The Rhetoric of Addressing Global Warming at
Stanford” (instructor: Jonathan Hunt, “The Rhetoric
of Research: Inquiry and Persuasion in Scholarship and Public
Affairs”)
- Fagan Harris,
“The Power of the Social Situation in the Classroom”
(instructor: Jonathan Hunt, “The Rhetoric of Research:
Inquiry and Persuasion in Scholarship and Public Affairs”)
- Elaine
Zelby, “I'm Lovin’ It? McDonald’s Recent Corporate
Advertising” (instructor: Harold Zimmerman, “Branding,
Bragging and Bluffing: The Rhetoric of Corporate Advertising”)
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