Published each fall and spring semester, Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing recognizes outstanding work created by students in the First- and Second-Year Writing Program at the University of Dayton. Submission is open to all students in ENG 100, ENG 114, ENG 198, ENG 200, ASI 110, or ASI 120.

Current Issue: Volume 11, Issue 2 (2025)

John D. and Rose Marie Groppe Award for Excellence in Writing

Reid Miller, “Space Food for Thought: A Podcast"
John J. Arthur, “Paving Pathways to Legal Status: The Necessary Response to the U.S. Labor Shortage”

Barbara Farrelly Awards

Best Writing in ENG 100 or 114: Allison Lipps, “Eating Habits of College Students”

Best Writing in ENG 198 or 200:

Rachel Roell, “The Lessons Behind the Bedtime Story”
Maddie Dietrichs, “Beauty and the Beast (1991) and La Belle et la Bȇte (1946): Contrasting Views of Womanhood Across Varying Cultural Climates”

Best Writing in ASI 110 or 120: Gabriel N. Espinosa, “Glaucon on Justice and Injustice”

Father Jack McGrath, S.M., Award for Research in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Estella Elpers, “Jane Goodall’s Integration of Science and Spirituality”
Mason P. Hennessy, “Hunger and Holy Satiety”

Current Issue: Volume 11, Issue 2 (2025)

John D. and Rose Marie Groppe Award for Excellence in Writing

Barbara Farrelly Awards

Father Jack McGrath, S.M., Award for Research in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

ASI 110/120

ENG 100

ENG 198

ENG 200

Other courses

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