The Promising Young Writers Program was established to stimulate and recognize students’ writing talents and to emphasize the importance of writing skills among eighth-grade students. Students currently in the eighth-grade who are nominated by their schools may participate in the program. Schools in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Canada, as well as American schools abroad and the Virgin Islands, are eligible to nominate. The number of nominees from each school is determined by the eighth-grade average daily enrollment with one nominee per 100 students. Each state is allowed one winner for each member in the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress. This is the twenty-second year for the program.
This year, 656 students were nominated. Of that number, 224 received Certificates of Recognition and 432 received Certificates of Participation. Each student submitted two pieces of writing, which were read by teams of teachers at the state level. Papers were judged on content, purpose, audience, tone, word choice, organization, development, and style. Students who submit papers receive either a Certificate of Recognition or a Certificate of Participation to recognize their efforts.
The National Council of Teachers of English and the Promising Young Writers Advisory Committee expresses its appreciation to all who took part in the 2007 Promising Young Writers Program. The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed this program on its NASSP National Advisory List of Student Contests and Activities for 2006–2007.
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2007 Impromptu Writing Topic
If you could go back to another time for one day, whom would you like to meet? Explain why you would like to meet this individual and discuss what you would tell her/him about life in the present and why. |
Click on the state links below to see a list of students receiving certificates of recognition.
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