:: Essay Prize

Rules:

1. All current UMass Dartmouth students may compete for this prize.
2. Send one digital copy (in .doc format) of your original essay (term paper, conference paper, article, etc.) to Jean Salgado (Secretary, Department of Portuguese) at jsalgado@umassd.edu by 12 pm on November 21, 2008. Please request a receipt.
3. The essay (on literature, culture, linguistics, politics, history, sociology, anthropology, art history, etc.) may be in Portuguese or in English; however, the topic must be related to the Portuguese-speaking world. The submitted paper should include a 100-word abstract. In addition, the format of the paper should be appropriate to the discipline, e.g., the MLA style in the humanities.
4. The winner of the first prize in a given year cannot participate in the following year's contest. After being awarded a first prize, a student may apply for the prize two years hence (e.g., 2009 and 2011).
5. All faculty members of the Graduate Program in Portuguese will rate the essays (on a scale of 0 to 10). The winners will be the authors of the essays with first, second and third highest scores.
6. Graduate faculty members will receive the essays without the authors' names.
7. Any issues related to this prize will be resolved by the Graduate Faculty in Portuguese.

The 2008 Luso-Afro-Brazilian Best Essay Prize will be announced at the Fall 2008 Wine & Cheese Luso-Afro-Brazilian Graduate Reception on December 4, 2008.

For updated information on the prize, including the announcement of the winners, please consult www.umassd.edu/portgrad.

For a list of winners of the Best Student Essay Prize from 2005 to the present, please visit this page.

 Last Updated On: 3/18/09