Winners Announced for 2008 WPA Award for Graduate Writing in WPA Studies:   First WPA Award for Graduate Writing Goes to a Board Game 

The Council of Writing Program Administrators is pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Award for Graduate Writing in WPA Studies. The first-place award goes to “The WPA Game,” a board game created, developed, and produced by six students from Purdue University: Harris Bras, Dana Driscoll, Cristyn Elder, Megan Schoen, Thomas Sura, and Jaclyn Wells.  The second place entry is “Writing in the Disciplines,” an essay by Jennifer Cover, a graduate student at Virginia Tech.

The CWPA Award for Graduate Writing in WPA Studies recognizes outstanding achievements by students of writing program administration and is intended to encourage graduate scholarship in WPA studies. Entries were judged on innovation, scholarship, relevance, and clarity of writing.

Members of the Award Selection Committee Duane Roen (Arizona Sate University), Carrie Leverenz (Texas Christian University), and Steven Wilhoit (University of Dayton) noted, “It is especially gratifying to see such strong and interesting work being done by those who are the newer members of our profession.”

Winners will receive their awards at the WPA Breakfast at the CCCC meeting in San Francisco on Thursday, March 12, 2009 and have agreed to submit proposals to present their projects at the 2009 WPA Summer Conference in Minneapolis.

More information about the Award for Graduate Writing in WPA Studies can be found on the WPA website at this URL: http://www.wpacouncil.org/node/1228