David Faulkner, Senior Lecturer in the Knight Institute and Department of English, provided final polishing and editorial work. Joe Martin, Director of the Writing Workshop, undertook the crucial tasks of essay selection and preliminary editing. Essays were written for the upper-level course English 2880, Expository Writing, in sections on topics such as “The Reflective Essay” and “The Criminal Trial: Issues and Actors.” Essays were written for courses in the Writing in the Majors program, for courses such as “Evolutionary Biology” and “The Physics of Sound.” Students’ majors and colleges similarly represent the breadth of the university, with contributors from six colleges and authors whose diverse interests include agriculture and English, mathematics and law.Īs always, publishing this beautiful collection was a collaborative effort for which many merit thanks. The prize-winning essays here were written for First-Year Writing Seminars offered in departments ranging from Science and Technology Studies to Medieval Studies and Theater. In this 2011 double-issue, readers will find that all these qualities continue in abundance. Monroe commented on “the quality, range, and inventiveness of the essays” included in that issue. In 1995, when the inaugural volume of Discoveries appeared, then director of the Knight Institute Jonathan B.
