awards

Congratulations to Asao Inoue!

Asao Inoue's book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future has now won the CCCC Outstanding Book Award (March, 2017) and the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Best Book Award (July, 2017). Inoue's book was co-published by the WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press in 2015.

Asao Inoue accepts the Outstanding Book Award at CCCC in
Portland, Oregon in March 2017.


Asao Inoue accepts the Outstanding Book Award at
the Council of Writing Program Administrors Conference
in Knoxville, Tennessee, in July 2017.

Parlor Press Book Receives Award from CWPA

For immediate release . . .

The WPA Outcomes Statement—A Decade Later, edited by Nicholas N. Behm, Gregory R. Glau, Deborah H. Holdstein, Duane Roen, and Edward M. White, received the Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators at its annual conference on July 17, 2015 in Boise, Idaho. The annual award honors the book that addresses issues of long-term interest to WPAs, makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of writing program administration, and serves as a strong representative of the best work in the field. This year's award recognized books published in 2013. In making its announcement, the award committee had this to say:

The WPA Outcomes Statement is a living document, and this edited collection reflects how the Outcomes Statement is adapted in different environments in response to different challenges. This edited collection explores several ways in which the WPA Outcomes have been used to develop curriculum and enact change at many levels. Because of the breadth and depth of the contributions, this book will be a useful resource for years to come. It's not only a retrospective, but a forward-looking work that provides ideas for institutions at all levels.

Bump Halbritter and Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action Receive Distinguished Book Award

Posted 7 June, 2014 - 12:34 by David Blakesley


We're pleased to announce that Bump Halbritter's Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (Parlor Press, 2012) is the winner of the 2013 Distinguished Book Award from Computers and Composition. Bump received the award at the Computers and Writing Conference hosted at Washington State University on 6 June 2014.

Rational Rhetoric wins Olson Award

Cover of Rational RhetoricDavid J. Tietge's Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse has been named the winner of JAC's Gary A. Olson Award for most outstanding book in rhetorical and cultural theory. -- 26 May 2010.

Parlor Press Book Wins WPA Best Book Award for 2004-2005

Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline, edited by Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo (Parlor Press, 2004) has been selected for the Council of Writing Program Administrator’s Best Book Award for 2004-2005. The book is in the Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Patricia Sullivan and Catherine Hobbs.

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