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 85th Annual Pennsylvania Communication Association (PCA) Convention.
Graduate Competition – Top Papers
Breaking the Silence: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Bell Let’s Talk Campaign
Tiffany Bohner, Penn State Schuylkill – First Place
Allegoria: Rhetoric and Revelation in St. Augustine
Keili Darius Branche, Duquesne University – Second Place
When a Bite is More Than a Mouthful: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Apple Logo
Samuel Edogbanya, Duquesne University – Third Place
Undergraduate Competition – Top Papers
Bakhtin Walks into a Bar: The Author and Hero Relationship of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”
Audrey Husted, Geneva College – First Place
“You Can Be Anything”: Highlighting Barbie’s Hyperfemininity and Hypermasculinity in the Animated Films
Sanjana Vinjamuri & Indiana Gallant, Immaculata University – Second Place
The Rhetorical Arrow of Storytelling in The Hunger Games
Rebecca Ribblet, University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown – Third Place