Current Volume: Volume 9 (2025)

A Note from the Editor

Dear Readers,

Thank you for reading Cardinal Compositions, Volume 9! Our editors have dedicated significant effort and time to this issue, carefully selecting essays, visuals, assignment sheets, as well as creative writing from the 2024-25 calendar year.

This journal celebrates undergraduate achievements and showcases the most effective texts primarily from Composition Program courses (with a couple submissions from ENG 202: Introduction to Creative Writing this year!), and these submissions represent the program's finest work. For this year's issue, our editors considered various genres and ultimately chose to feature: two instructor assignment sheets - one research-based and the other a practice symposium where students are tasked with sharing their research; three multimodal projects - a video presentation and two infographics; five traditional essays; and two creative writing pieces - one poetry and the other a fiction short story.

The University of Louisville is home to exceptional students and faculty, and we hope this issue highlights some of the best among them! We also extend our gratitude to Simone Jackson for the stunning cover art.

Our editors thank our supportive department and invite you to explore the 2024-25 issue of Cardinal Compositions.

Sincerely,

Jaimeson Oakley

Editor-in-Chief