CCCC Outstanding Book Award

The CCCC Outstanding Book Award is presented annually to the author(s) or editor(s) of a book published two years previously that makes an outstanding contribution to composition and communication studies. Books are evaluated for scholarship or research and for applicability to the study and teaching of composition and communication. Nominations eligible for the 2009 award (1) will have been published in calendar year 2007, (2) will be received from reader, author, or publisher, (3) must be received by September 1, 2008, and (4) must include a brief statement of the book’s contribution to the profession. Send six (6) copies of nomination materials (including book), to the CCCC Outstanding Book Award Committee, c/o CCCC, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096.

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Outstanding Book Award Winners

2008
Sharon Crowley, Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism

2007
Norbert Elliot, On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America

Krista Ratcliffe, Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness

2006
Morris Young, Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship

2005
Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching

Catherine Prendergast, Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education

2004
Mary Soliday, The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education

2003
Deborah Brandt, Literacy in American Lives

Eileen Schell and Patricia Lambert Stock, Moving a Mountain

2002
Paul Kameen, Writing/Teaching: Essays Toward a Rhetoric of Pedagogy

2001
Halasek, Kay, A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies

2000
Susan Miller, Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing and Barbara Couture, Toward a Phenomenological Rhetoric: Writing, Profession, and Altruism

1999
Marilyn Sternglass, Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level

1998
James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies

1997
John Brereton, The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925: A Documentary History

1996
Susan Peck MacDonald, Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences

1995
Thomas L. Kent, Paralogic Rhetoric: A Theory of Communicative Interaction

1994
Lester Faigley, Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition

1993
Richard Bullock, Charles Schuseter, and John Trimbur, The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary

1992
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present

Susan Miller, Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition

1991
Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary, The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared