The deadline for the CASDW Award for Best Dissertation and the CASDW Award for Best Article is March 16. The calls for nominations can both be found below.
To make sure that we are aware of all the great work being done, we would like to encourage people to please let our Article Award committee know if they or their colleagues have published something in our field in the last year. This notification would allow us to consider these publications, even without formal nominations.
The Joan Pavelich CASDW Annual Award for the Best Dissertation in Writing and Discourse Studies recognizes an outstanding PhD dissertation in Writing Studies, Discourse Studies, Rhetoric, or a cognate field for 2019. The award will be given to a student in a Canadian university or to a Canadian student studying outside Canada. To be eligible, dissertations must have been defended between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. An announcement of the winning dissertation will be made at the CASDW Annual Conference. Nominees do not need to be CASDW members, and self-nominations are accepted.
The award includes a prize of $100 and a one-year free CASDW membership for the following year.
The deadline for nominations is March 16, 2020. 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 thesis; and (3) and methodological rigour and/or innovation.
Applicants/nominators should send the following items to each member of the selection committee listed below: a PDF file containing the dissertation (or a link to an online repository), a CV, and a cover sheet with the applicant’s full name, citizenship, institution and degree program, and contact information for their primary supervisor.
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 2019 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 March 16, 2020. 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 2019 and 2020.
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 