Please join me in congratulating this year’s Distinguished Capstone Award Winners!

MA English

Eric Wilbanks (Jeff Mielke)
Social and Structural Constraints on a Phonetically-Motivated Change in Progress: (str) Retraction in Raleigh, NC 

Christine Barba (Nancy Penrose)
Student perceptions of standardized assessment and the SAT 

William Tolbert (Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi)
Writing America’s Empire: John William DeForest and Colonialist Discourse during Reconstruction

MS Technical Communication

Julia Johnson (Huiling Ding and Stan Dicks)
Disrupting Content: piloting DITA for presales proposals

These projects will also be nominated for the college-level Capstone Award competition, which takes place in September.

Great work, all!