More than Marks Writing Contest
We know how hard you work on your writing, and we’re giving you a chance to show it off to the world! If you wrote something this year that you’re really proud of, we’d love to read it —because we understand that writing is about more than just marks (although marks are nice too).
Who can participate?
You must be a UTM undergraduate student in good standing.
What can you submit?
- You can submit any writing you’ve done for a credit-bearing UTM course this year, such as:
- an essay
- a review
- a report
- and more!
- Your submission must be no longer than 30 pages in total (including references, tables, graphs, cover page etc.).
- You can submit a paper exactly as you wrote it for a course, or you can revise it before submitting it to us.
- You can submit one paper you wrote by yourself, and/or one paper that you wrote as part of a group (a maximum of two in total).
Entry Instructions & Deadline
Please submit your paper via email to academicskills.utm@utoronto.ca no later than Friday, April 30, 2021.
Prizes
- First-place winner(s): $150 Gift Card for the UTM Bookstore
- Second-place winner(s): $75 Gift Card for the UTM Bookstore
- Third-place winner(s): $25 Gift Card for the UTM Bookstore
Contest Winners
2020 Winners
First Place: Cathy Tran
Second Place: Ronda Robinson
The Other Brother: A Critical Analysis in Comparison to Frankenstein (PDF)
Third Place: Laurella Cano Jose
Rhetorical Address II: Cities are Not Built for Women (PDF)
2019 Winners
First Place: Matthew Kolisnyk
Machine Consciousness: More than just philosophically interesting. (PDF)
Second Place: Myia Hellmer
A Review of the Metamorphic Petrology of the Appalachian Mountains (PDF)
Third Place: Giorgi Buzaladze
Finding a More Effective Way to Address Health Problems in Africa (PDF)
2018 Winners
First Place: Andrew O'Brien
Energy Outcomes of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster (PDF)
Second Place: Avleen Grewal
“You are there” paper- Letters from a British Magistrate in India to his friend in England. (PDF)
Third Place: Sughanda Suri
Alderville First Nations: The Journey for Equality (PDF)
2017 Winners
First Place: Shaishav Datta, Johnathan Davidson, and Thomas Piekut
Second Place: Maleeha Iqbal
Eliminating workplace gender segregation does not work (PDF)
Third Place: Yan Liu
Ivan and Zosima: Existential Atheism vs. Existential Theism (PDF)