Third Year Honourable Mention: A Summer with the Mohawk Language

WRIT 3730, Substantive Editing. Course Director: Dunja Baus

Abstract

Jazz Cook’s paper, “A Summer with the Mohawk Language,” is a fascinating piece; its prose is so good as to be immersive and its insights are deep, resonant, and vivid. The author explores a liminal summer with their family, searching for insight into how language and identity are intertwined. The judges felt the piece demonstrated “great clarity of thought matched by simple sentences,” resulting in a highly readable and beautifully crafted piece of writing that stood out from other entries.