New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research

RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the “John R. Hayes  
Award for Excellence in Writing Research.” This award, aimed at  
recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research  
in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an  
article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) 
. The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor,  
Christina Haas.

Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We  
encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners  
will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of  
writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research  
Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning  
and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and  
Communication (CCCC).  Recipients of the award will receive a custom- 
designed plaque and a $1000 prize.

This year’s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the  
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, “Staying  
in the (curricular) Lines:  Practice Constraints and Possibilities in  
Childhood Writing” (WC 25[1], 119-159).

The selection committee for this year’s award included Rich Haswell  
(chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David  
Wallace.

Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and  
Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the  
international conference, “Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives”  
to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London.  We hope you  
can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her  
excellent work.

We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the  
eligible pool for next year.

Karen Schriver, PhD
KSA Communication Design & Research, Inc.
33 Potomac Street
Oakmont, Pennsylvania 15139  USA
[email protected]

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