Each year the East Central Writing Center Association (ECWCA) acknowledges the outstanding service provided by tutor/consultants throughout the region at our annual conference.
Awards Certificates and $200 cash awards will be given in two categories:  Outstanding Tutor of the Year and Tutor Leadership.  Details about the awards and the nomination process are posted on our website:
http://cms-stark.kent.edu/Academics/Writing/upload/ECWCA_2010_Awards_CALL.pdf
The [...]

The IWCA Board and Executive Council calls for nominations for Outstanding Article 2009.
By February 1, please nominate articles for the 2009 Outstanding Article Award.  The award will be given at the IWCA Collaborative at Cs.  Please note the policies, criteria, and nominating process below.
The following policies should be noted:
* Nominated publications must be dated within [...]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: ECWCA OUTSTANDING TUTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD & ECWCA TUTOR LEADERSHIP AWARD
Deadline: Monday, March 1, 2010
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 [...]

Congratulations to Shanti Bruce and Kevin Dvorak as well as Elizabeth Boquet and Neal Lerner, along with all the nominees for the 2008 awards. Their contributions to writing center research and scholarship are invaluable to the profession.
The 2008 Outstanding Scholarship Committee–Wayne Robertson (chair), Michelle Deal, and Eliana Schonberg–is pleased to announce the 2008 Best Scholarship [...]

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 [...]