ANNUAL CAROL URNESS STUDENT WRITING AWARD
Open to all University of Minnesota Students
This award is offered each year by the Associates of the James
Ford Bell Library in honor of former Bell Library curator, Carol Urness.
It comes with a certificate and a cash award of $100.00.
List of Past Recipients
Entry Requirements:
Current student status at the University of Minnesota
Papers must be based on at least one primary source document from the James Ford Bell Library, and topics should be relevant to the Bell collection.
Papers must be at least 5 but no more than 30 pages in length, including footnotes or end notes, but not illustrative materials.
All papers must by typed and double spaced, using a 12 point serif non-italic font. All pages must be numbered.
All papers must be submitted with a cover sheet that contains the following information: Your name, student ID#, college status (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, MA student, Ph.D. student, etc.), mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. Your name must not appear on any other pages of the paper to facilitate blind judging.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 1st
Submit papers as e-mail attachments to:
Dr. Marguerite Ragnow, curator
ragn0001@umn.edu
N.B.: Submission to this context does not preclude submission to other competitions, such as History Day or the Society for the History of Discoveries' essay contest (www.sochistdisc.org/essay-contest.htm). It is assumed that the papers submitted to this contest also may be submitted as part of a class assignment.
Judging Criteria
Originality
Cogency of the presentation and the documentation
Literary quality
The essay's contribution to the field of study also will be considered. In the case of a tie, two prizes may be given; if no essay is judged to be appropriate or sufficiently meritorious, the Associates reserve the right to make no award.
IMPORTANT: Submission to this contest grants the Associates of the James Ford Bell Library and the University of Minnesota the right to announce you as the winner of the contest in their promotional literature and on their Web sites.
Questions? Contact the curator at ragn0001@umn.edu or 612/624-6895.
