Personality Profile

Places:​

1st- Kim Geyer  (Northwestern Michigan College)

Judge comments:

The writing in this story needed to be both straight forward and extremely sensitive. Kim balanced those two necessities incredibly well. Homelessness is not an issue that can be taken lightly. Kim presented the issue using both factual and emotional language. In a personality profile, it’s important to let the subject tell their own story. And I think Kim did that. The writing was succinct. The subject was fascinating, heartbreaking, and maddening. Kim quite expertly fit all of these things into a one page story.

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2nd- Ruby Go  (Washtenaw Community College)

Judge comments:

The best personality profiles are about ordinary people and the often extraordinary things they do or circumstances they find themselves in. Ruby told a story of an average person, but one with a downright fascinating story – a high school drop out, mother, wife, a gamer, an artist, and a person with invitations to attend the most prestigious universities in the country. What I think Ruby did best was let the subject, through excellent quotation choices, tell her own story. Well done.

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3rd- Vae O’Neil (Schoolcraft College)

Judge comments:

The story itself is great. The subject is fascinating. I loved learning more about the art of cosplay. I found some of the sentences a bit on the long side – where a semi-colon was used, those sentences could have been broken up into two. Overall, just a really cool story on a culture that is gaining more fame with the popularity comic and gaming conventions.