The IWCA Research Awards Committee is pleased to announce the January 2012 recipient of the IWCA Research Grant ($750) is Christopher Ervin of Western Kentucky University. Chris is currently studying cultures of undergraduate research in writing centers. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Chris has been conducting an ethnographic study of the Coe College Writing Center [...]
The Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association is pleased to announce that awards and grants are available for the 2012 MAWCA Conference <http://mawca2012.intuitwebsites.com/> , March 30th and 31st at Shippensburg University. Brief descriptions of each of the awards are below, along with links to additional information on the conference website. The deadline for submitting applications is Tuesday [...]
The International Writing Centers Association is proud to announce the recipients of the Best Article Award for 2010: Bradley Hughes (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Paula Gillespie (Florida International University), and Harvey Kail (University of Maine) for their co-authored “What They Take with Them: Findings from the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project” (The Writing Center Journal [...]
The Robert Marrs Award was created by the Midwest Writing Centers Association to honor a writing center director who, throughout his career, has exemplified tutor-centered leadership both locally, within the writing center he directs, and regionally, within the Midwest Writing Centers Association. By recognizing his sustained and ongoing contributions to tutor scholarship and leadership, the [...]
Three recent awards have been made to our colleagues in the writing center community. First, congratulations to Michele Eodice (University of Oklahoma), Anne Ellen Geller (St. Johns University), and Neal Lerner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), who have been awarded the CCCC Research Initiative Grant ($10,000) for 2010-2011 for their study Seniors Reflect on Their Meaningful [...]
By February 1, please nominate articles for the 2010 IWCA Outstanding Article Award. The award will be given at the IWCA Collaborative @ Cs in Atlanta, on April 6, 2011. Please note the policies, criteria, and nominating process below. The following policies should be noted: *Nominated publications must be dated within the calendar year for [...]
Deadline: January 31, 2011 Each year the East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) board members acknowledge the outstanding service provided by tutor/consultants throughout the region. Designed to celebrate the contributions of undergraduate-student, graduate-student, and staff writing center tutors, these awards serve not only to publicly acknowledge deserving tutor/consultants, but also to support and sustain the [...]
On behalf of the IWCA Executive Board, I invite you to nominate books/major works for the IWCA Outstanding Book/Major Work Award. Previously this award was given every year. But because IWCA conferences are now scheduled each biennium and because we received few nominations in previous years, we are moving to a once-per-biennium award cycle to [...]
Named after its first recipient, the Muriel Harris Outstanding Service Award recognizes outstanding service that has benefited the international writing center community in significant and broad-based ways. The award is given at every other IWCA conference. All nominations should be submitted electronically to Al DeCiccio, chair of the committee, at adeciccio@svc.edu and should include the [...]
Congratulations to Isabelle Thompson of Auburn University, whose 2009 Written Communication article received the IWCA’s Best Article Award for 2009. Thompson’s article “Scaffolding in the Writing Center: A Microanalysis of an Experienced Tutor’s Verbal and Nonverbal Tutoring Strategies” (Written Communication, 26.4, 417-453) was announced as the Best Article Award Committee’s choice at the Thursday evening [...]
