International Writing Centers Association
IWCA offers the following awards:
- an award to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to writing centers
- awards to recognize outstanding published scholarship on writing centers. In addition, small grants are available to professionals and graduate students whose research focuses on writing centers. IWCA also supports regional association conferences with speaker grants.
Scholarship Awards Policies and Guidelines
The IWCA president names the scholarship awards committees at the November NCTE conference and announces the call for nominations by January 1. The president forwards copies of nominated publications to the awards committee as nominations are received, until a deadline of February 1. Winners are announced at the IWCA conference, when it occurs in the spring, or at the CCCC, when the IWCA conference is in the fall of that year.
The following policies should be noted:
- Nominated publications must be dated within the calendar year for which awards are being considered.
- Publications may appear in print or digital venues.
- Scholarship award committees should include previous award winners, current board members, and regular members of the IWCA.
- The IWCA welcomes submissions from scholars and researchers at all stages of their academic careers, including undergraduate students, graduate students, and adjuncts, but notes that all submissions will be evaluated in the same way and with the same criteria.
- The IWCA welcomes single-authored and collaboratively authored works.
Criteria for the IWCA Scholarship Awards:
- The publication addresses one or more issues of long-term interest to writing center administrators, theorists, and/or practitioners.
- The publication discusses theories, practices, or policies that contribute to a richer understanding of writing center theory and practice.
- The publication shows sensitivity toward the situated contexts in which writing centers exist and operate.
- The publication makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of and research on writing centers.
- The publication will serve as a strong representative of the scholarship of and research on writing centers.
- The publication embodies the qualities of compelling and meaningful writing.
Send 5 copies of the work to
Michele EodiceBizzell Library LL 227
University of Oklahoma
401 W. Brooks St.
Norman OK 73019
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