The Conference on College Composition and Communication, a sub-group of the National [US] Council of Teachers of English, has announced a call for proposals for their research grant competition. Details are on this page:

http://www.ncte.org/cccc/awards/researchinitiative?roi=echo4-23227832370-21569550-bb52fa8b7ad02895324022fe53b52880&

The following is reposted on behalf of Xchanges. Some of you will likely have students who might be intereated.
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For our graduate-student issue of Xchanges, we are extending the submission deadline to July 15. I am sure some of you recall some great graduate-student seminar papers/multi-media works from the semester just ended. Please encourage those students (especially those for whom this would be a first publication) to submit their work for consideration.

We accept new research scholarship in the fields of rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication; we also consider submissions that deal with issues facing writing centers and those engaged in writing across the curriculum. We publish traditional and mutli-media
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Please spread the word about the extended deadline to your current and former graduate students. We will look forward to receiving submissions by July 15. The submissions will then go out for double-blind review to members of our national faculty review board.

Thanks! Don’t hesitate to write to me with questions.

Julie

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Julianne Newmark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Dept. of Communication, Liberal Arts, and Social Sciences
New Mexico Tech
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801

Office phone: (575) 835-5901
jnewmark@nmt.edu
http://www.juliannenewmark.com
Editor: Xchanges Journal
http://www.nmt.edu/~xchanges

Congrats to Doug Brent on receiving an NCTE award for Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication: “Transfer, Transformation, and Rhetorical Knowledge: Insights From Transfer Theory,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 25(4), 2011, 396–420.

[reproduced from a Natasha Artemeva post on the listserv]

Posted on behalf of Kathryn Alexander, Jay Dolmage and Graham Smart (Dissertation Awards Committee)

The winner is Patricia Kelly, April 2012, English Department. Simon Fraser University. “Textual Standardization and the ‘Common Language’ of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”

Patricia Kelly’s dissertation has been praised for the care and quality of its writing and the thoroughness of its research. It represents a new and important approach to texts in rhetorical studies. Patty’s work on psychiatry’s “common language” makes an important and novel contribution to research in the rhetoric of health and medicine. It is an outstanding example of PhD research that integrates rhetoric, writing studies, and discourse studies.

Winner

Brent, D. (2012). “Crossing Boundaries: Co-op Students Relearning to Write.” College Composition and Communication 63(4): 558-592.

Honorable Mention:

Derkatch, C, (2012). “Demarcating Medicine’s Boundaries: Constituting and Categorizing in the Journals of the American Medical Association.” Technical Communication Quarterly 21: 210-229.

Lingard, L., McDougall,A., Levstik, M., Chandok, N., Spafford, M.M., & Schryer, C.  (2012). “Representing complexity well: a story about teamwork, with implications for how we teach collaboration.” Medical Education 46(9): 869-877.

Tachino, T. (2012). “Theorizing Uptake and Knowledge Mobilization: A Case for Intermediary Genre.” Written Communication 29(4): 455-476.

Yeoman, E. (2012). “The Pedagogy of Translation: Learning from Innu Activist Elizabeth Penashue’s Diaries.” Journal of the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies 10(2.). https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/article/view/36276

Selection Committee

Sarah Banting, Mount Royal University

Margaret Clow Bohan, Dalhousie University

Roger Graves, University of Alberta (chair)

Miriam Horne, Champlain College