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CCCC Awards: A number of awards were presented at the CCCC Annual Convention in San Antonio. The 2004 James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award was presented to Jessica Enoch, "Women's Resistant Pedagogies in Turn-of-the-Century America: Lydia Maria Child, Zitkala Sa, Jovita Idar, Marta Pena, and Leonor Villegas de Magnon." The 2004 CCCC Outstanding Book Award was presented to Mary Soliday, The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education. This year's Exemplar Award was presented to Jacqueline Jones Royster. The Richard Braddock Award was presented to Karen Kopelson, "Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning; Or, The Performance of Neutrality (Re)Considered as a Composition Pedagogy for Student Resistance." The 2004 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication was presented to Donna Kain. The Scholars for the Dream Travel Awards were presented to juliAnna Avila, Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade, Ted Hall, David Kirkland, Melvette Melvin, Rose Metts, Kelvin Monroe, Spencer Salas, Cecilia Solis-Sublette, and Sandra Young. The Best Article of the Year Award in Teaching English in the Two-Year College was presented to Jay Simmons and Timothy McLaughlin for "Longer, Deeper, Better." The Nell Ann Pickett Award for Outstanding Service to Two-Year Colleges was presented to John Lovas.
The CCCC is pleased to announce a new research project: The CCCC Research Initiative: Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy-What We Know, What We Need to Know. The program aims to create an opportunity for researchers to bring together what the profession has already learned, through a variety of methodologies, regarding the teaching and study of composition, rhetoric, and literacy.
The purposes of such synthesis projects are (1) to articulate what is known about the teaching of composition at this moment in time and (2) to provide a foundation for future research, for large grant proposals, and for public policy discussions. This effort, which will begin in late summer, is focused on supporting new meta-analytical research by providing funding of up to $5,000 to selected projects and an opportunity for researchers from all participating institutions to gather to share ideas and receive advice.
Ten projects are provided for in this initiative. The selection process will occur in july 2004, with notification of awards by August 15,2004. Each project group will attend a preliminary meeting to be held in fall 2004, will...