About the Contest

The Center For Writing Excellence’s annual Multimodal Writing Contest was created to celebrate the innovative multimodal writing students are producing across the university, in their classes or in their on-campus or professional experiences. Hosted annually, all Elon University undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit entries. There are nine categories in which to enter, divided up according to the program, school, or experience in which the multimodal text was produced: Arts and Sciences, Communications, Business, Education, Health Sciences, Law, CORE Curriculum, Campus Involvement, and Internships. We welcome any multimodal project–that means any composition using two or more modes, such as text, images, video, and audio.

The Multimodal Writing Contest is also way for students to elevate their hard work to a level of schoolwide recognition. We hope that faculty will encourage their students to submit entries if their classes involve multimodal writing.

Some examples of projects that have been submitted in the past include research posters, essays with graphs or images, websites, animations, podcasts, videos, infographics, or graphic novels. This website houses many past entries from the contest for browsing, and we hope this database will be used as a resource for classrooms across campus, as these examples of excellent multimedia creation can serve as inspiration or guides for future student work.