Members of the Award Selection Committee were Shirley K Rose, Chair (Purdue University), William Condon (Washington State University), Marguerite Helmers (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), Joseph Janangelo (Loyola University Chicago), and Ellen Quandahl (San Diego State University).

 

The Council of Writing Program Administrators is pleased to announce its first Award for Best Book on Writing Program Administration.

Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, edited by Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2001) has been selected for the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Best Book Award for 2000-2001.

The CWPA has established this award as part of its efforts to develop and promote an understanding of writing program administration as intellectual work of depth, sophistication, and significance. The Awards Committee developed the following criteria for selection:

1) The book addresses one or more issues of long-term interest to administrators of writing programs in higher education.
2) The book presents outcomes of the intellectual work of one or more writing program administrators.
3) The book discusses theories, practices or policies that contribute to a richer understanding of WPA work.
4) The book shows sensitivity toward the situated contexts in which WPAs work.
5) The book makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of writing program administration.
6) The book will serve as a strong representative of the scholarship of and research on writing program administration.

The awards committee noted that, in addition to meeting these criteria, Coming of Age is also to be commended for its innovation in print-linked publication, which expands conceptions and definitions of scholarly genres.

Coming of Age is part of Heinemann’s “Cross-Currents in Composition” series, edited by Charles Schuster. Professor Linda Shamoon is Director of the College Writing Program at the University of Rhode Island. Professor Rebecca Moore Howard is Director of the Writing Program at Syracuse University. Professor Sandra Jamieson is Director of Composition at Drew University. University of Rhode Island Professor Robert Schwegler is a co-author of the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ “Intellectual Work Document.”

The editors received certificates of the award at a special presentation during the Friday evening banquet at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference in Park City, Utah, on July 12, 2002.  

 

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