Please note that changes have been made to the call for nominations beginning with the upcoming 2014 award cycle (deadline May 1, 2013).
The CCCC Outstanding Book Award is presented annually for work in the field of composition and rhetoric. A work eligible for the 2014 award will have been published in calendar year 2012 or 2013. Each year two awards will be given: one award for a single-authored or multi-authored work and one award for an edited collection of scholarly work. Both categories will be evaluated for scholarship and research in the areas of pedagogy, practice, history, and theory. To be eligible for the award, nominees must be members of CCCC and/or NCTE at the time of nomination. To nominate a volume for the award, the author, editor, publisher, or reader must be a CCCC and/or NCTE member. Nominations must be received by May 1, 2013, and must include a brief statement of the book’s contribution to the profession (Note: You do not need to send copies of the nominated book with the nomination.). Please send the statement of the book’s contribution to the CCCC Outstanding Book Award Committee at cccc@ncte.org.
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Outstanding Book Award Winners
2012
David Fleming, From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-1974
Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda, Cross-Language Relations in Composition
2011
Xiaoye You, Writing in the Devil’s Tongue: A History of English Composition in China
2010
David Gold, Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947
2009
Charles Bazerman, Handbook of Research on Writing: Society, School, Individual, Text
John M. Duffy, Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community
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
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