Research Award Announcement

RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

We are pleased to announce this year’s winner of the “John R. Hayes  
Award for Excellence in Writing Research.” This award, aimed at  
recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research  
in writing, is awarded annually to an author or authors of an article  
appearing in the journal Written Communication.

This year’s award will go to Lynda Walsh from the University of Nevada  
(Reno) for “Marking Territory: Legislated Genres, Stakeholder Beliefs,  
and the Possibilities for Common Ground in the Mexican Wolf Blue Range  
Reintroduction Project” (WC 26[2], 115-153). The selection committee  
for this year’s award included Peter Smagorinsky (chair), Davida  
Charney, Ulla Connor, and David Fleming. Lynda will be recognized at  
CCCC on Friday March 19 at the beginning of paper session H.42, “Re- 
considering/Re-visioning Audience.” Please join us in Louisville,  
Kentucky at the Conference on College Composition and Communication  
(CCCC) to congratulate Lynda on her excellent work:

When: 	Friday March 19, 11:00 a.m.
Where: 	Louisville Convention Center, Room 218, Level 2

We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the  
eligible pool for next year. Both seasoned and new scholars are  
welcome to enter. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical  
scholarship.  Winners will be announced in the journal and will be  
recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the  
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) or the  
American Educational Research Association (AERA). Recipients of the  
award will receive a custom-designed plaque and a $1000 prize.

Karen Schriver
KSA Communication Design &  
Research 
                                                                                                           Pittsburgh 
, PA

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