The CASDW Annual Award for the Best Article or Chapter in Writing and Discourse Studies recognizes the best journal article or book chapter published during the 2017 calendar year by a CASDW member. Co-authored articles or chapters will be eligible as long as one of the authors is a CASDW member.
The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2018. The winner of the award will be announced at the CASDW Annual Conference. Authors are invited to nominate their own publications as well as those of other CASDW members. In order to be eligible, nominees must have been CASDW members in both 2017 and 2018.
The assessment criteria for the award are as follows: (1) the overall quality of the writing and thinking; (2) the significance of the question(s) addressed in the research; (3) the importance of the new knowledge presented in the article; and (3) and methodological rigour and/or innovation.
The award includes a prize of $100 and a one-year CASDW membership for the following year.
Applicant/nominees should send a PDF of the journal article or book chapter, as well as a complete reference, to the committee listed below:
Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/Association Canadienne de Rédactologie 