Gina Savoy Honored for First-Year Seminar Essay

2017 Apr 3

Gina Savoy '20 is one of five students who received a First-Year Seminar Essay award during a ceremony March 28. The students received cash awards ranging from $250 to $75 and a book, selected by their course instructor. With support from The Endeavor Foundation of New York, Wesleyan was able to offer the offer inaugural awards ceremony.

Savoy won the top prize with her essay, “The Church: A Lifelong Obstacle for Vincent van Gogh."

During the First-Year Seminar program, faculty teach students the specifics of college-level academic writing: formulating an original, debatable claim; supporting that claim with textual and scholarly evidence; making analytical rather than simply observational arguments; and synthesizing one's points into an effective conclusion.