Alexander Receives Writing Awards

Jennifer (Hatfield) Alexander, daughter of Mary Ann and Dr. Larry Hatfield of La Grange, is a recent recipient of two writing awards given through the graduate department at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, where she is currently studying for an English Master’s degree. Alexander’s work examined the efficacy of teacher written corrective feedback on second language student writing, which earned first place in the Graduate Interdisciplinary and Applied Linguistics category. Her second work, nominated to the Graduate Writing Studies category, was a web-based piece that explored the rhetorics of materiality and archival practices in digital spaces using her late grandfather, Gus L. Hruska’s World War II letters to home, which also earned first place. She plans to graduate next spring with an emphasis on literacy practices.