WPA Research Grants Awards Recipients

2006 WPA Research Grants Awards Winners of the 2006 WPA Research Grants were announced at the WPA at CCCC Breakfast in Chicago, March 23, 2006. The winning proposals were for the following projects:

"Does it Transfer? Tracing FYC Students' Rhetorical Practices across Multiple Mediums": Jenn Fishman, Mary Jo Reiff -- Co-Principal Investigators Bill Doyle, Casie Fedukovich, Hiie Saumaa, Stacey Pigg -- Project Researchers University of Tennessee-Knoxville $2000.00

"Are We Making it Harder? A Comparison of Online and Paper Based Writing Instruction Focusing on Subjective Cognitive Workload": Lisa Emerson Massey University, New Zealand $1098.87 (see report presented at 2007 WPA Breakfast, attached below)

"Reformist Opportunities: A Study of Writing Program Partnerships": Diana George, Kelly Belanger (Department of English) Marie Paretti, Lisa DuPree McNair (Department of Engineering Education) Virginia Tech $1997.00

Research project results will be presented on posters at the 2007 WPA Breakfast at CCCC. Research reports or articles resulting from the research projects are submitted to our journal WPA: Writing Program Administration for first consideration.