Birmingham STC 2010 Scholarship
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Auburn University and the Birmingham STC have awarded the 2010 Donald H. Cunningham Award for Academic Excellence in Technical and Professional Communication to Katie Mullinax.
About Katie
I am originally from Southside, AL (just outside of Gadsden), and I completed my BA in English literature at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While at UAB, I became interested in professional writing, so I worked as an editorial intern for Thicket Magazine and as a columnist for UAB's student newspaper. Through these experiences, I discovered that I am much more interested in technical and professional communication than in literature. A former classmate at UAB and MTPC student, Cassity Hughes (who was also a Thicket intern), told me about how much she was enjoying Auburn's MTPC program, so I decided to apply.
Being an MTPC student has been a wonderful experience so far. My favorite thing about the program is the multitude of experiences I get to have. In class, I learn about document and web design, editing, technical communication theory, and rhetorical criticism. Outside the classroom, I teach freshman composition as a graduate assistant, transcribe and code data as a project assistant, and write and edit documents for the College of Engineering. I know my MTPC degree will prepare me to be a well-rounded technical communicator.
After I graduate from Auburn, I plan to enter Ph.D. school to study how the effective use of digital communications can help create agency for nonprofits. I volunteer at the Lee County Humane Society, and I'd like to help such organizations create documents that will promote their aims. The scholarship that your chapter has so generously given me will be a great help this fall when I am applying to doctoral programs. The funds you have awarded me will help me pay application fees and send GRE scores and transcripts to the schools I am interested in. Ideally, I will eventually have a career as a technical communicator, working both in industry and in academia.
Thank you so much for this scholarship--it will be a great help to me as I look toward my future!
Comments
Posted by Cousin Ray and family on Apr 18, 2010; 4:44 pm:
Very impressive and congratulations. It looks like you are getting a very good start on a very rewarding career. We wish you the best of luck as you continue your education. Oh yea, by the way, tell your Dad "War Eagle" for us.
Posted by Aunt Nancy & Uncle Joe on Apr 17, 2010; 7:34 am:
Katie, this is so impressive. Congratulations. We are so proud of you.
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