The IWCA Research Awards Committee (Karen Keaton-Jackson, North Carolina Central University, Michael Mattison, Boise State University, and Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, Chair, Southwestern University) are pleased to announce the recipients of the most recent round of research grant review. After considering an impressive and unprecedentedly large pool of proposals, we decided to fund two truly exceptional ones.
Zanice [...]

Beth Godbee, PhD student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, has been chosen as the first recipient of the Ben Rafoth Graduate Research Award. The $1000 grant will support Beth’s travel to this year’s IWCA/NCPTW conference in Las Vegas, where she will present (along with Christine Cozzens, Tanya Cochran, and Lessa Spitzer) her presentation entitled [...]

Committee:
Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, Southwestern University (Chair)
Michael Mattison, Boise State University
Karen Keaton-Jackson, North Carolina Central University
Awards Granted:
Rusty Carpenter and Terry Thaxton, University of Central Florida, A Study of Literacy and Writing in “Writers on the Move”
Dawn Fels, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The Vernacular Architecture of Composition Instruction: What the Narratives of Writing Center Tutors Reveal about the [...]

This year the committee–Lisa Ede, Oregon State University; Kurt Schick, James Madison University; Lisa Zimmerelli, University of Maryland University College, and Leigh Ryan (Chair), University of Maryland—reviewed an especially rich and diverse group and chose two articles to share the top spot: Michael Mattison’s “Someone to Watch Over Me: Reflection and Authority in the Writing [...]

The Outstanding Scholarship Committee awarded Marginal Words, Marginal Work?: Tutoring the Academy in the Work of Writing Centers, edited by William J. Macauley and Nicholas Mauriello, the International Writing Centers Association 2007 Outstanding Scholarship in a Book Award. The Committee, Wayne Roberston (chair), Glenda Conway, Treasure Ingels, and Jennifer Wells, recommended Marginal Words for its [...]

Michele Eodice, IWCA President, and Muriel Harris, Writing Lab Newsletter editor, are both pleased and honored to add two Associate Editors to the staff of WLN: Michael Mattison (Boise State University) and Janet Auten (American University). They will bring energy and impressive skills to this position, and we thank them for their willingness to work [...]