Students and Real-World Writing

A Notice from English Department, Writing Center---
"As a means of expanding students' sense of audience, deepening their investment in writing, and making explicit the link between composition and the "real world," we are inaugurating a student writing competition, open to any student enrolled in a Composition course during Spring 2008. More details to follow, but the gist is that eligible students can submit *any* piece of writing they think is excellent (produced in your class, or not; related to your class, or not). The student writing award will be funded by Collide: You will likely recall that neither editors nor contributors to Collide have received or will receive royalties from the text; in lieu of royalties, the publisher sets aside $1 from the sale of each text, and with this money we will fund the student writing awards."