2023 Competition

The PCA writing competition aims to encourage and give recognition to undergraduate and graduate level scholarship in communication and to offer undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to present their work at the 80th Annual Pennsylvania Communication Association (PCA) Convention.

Graduate Writing Winners

“Knowledge Management Contributions to Organizational Conflict”
Sovi Herring, Duquesne University
“We All Must Fight: An Analysis of Emma Watson’s United Nations Speech on Gender Equality”
Ginamarie Canepa, East Stroudsburg University
“The Ideological and Feminist Criticism of the Television Adaptation of the Handmaid’s Tale”
Shawna Campanaro, East Stroudsburg University

Undergraduate Writing Winners

“Using Communication Ethics Literacy to Determine the Validity of the United States’ REST”
Morgan Emery, Duquesne University
“Memory Dis-Membered: A Call to Re-Member the Forgotten Rhetorical Canon”
Ryan Eisenhuth, Geneva College
“Does Media Violence Become Communicative Violence?”
Leah Harris, Slippery Rock University