Award-Winning Books and Journal Articles
from NCTE INBOX 11-22-11
A number of teachers, authors, and researchers were presented with awards last week during NCTE's 101st Annual Convention. This week's INBOX features some of the award winners; see the NCTE website for details on all of the awards.
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Look to the Orbis Pictus Award to find the best nonfiction titles for your students. See the "Children's Literature Review" in Language Arts to learn more about this year's winner: Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan and illustrated by Brian Floca.
Paul and Kate Farmer Writing Awards for articles in English Journal written by classroom teachers
Kyle Vaughn, teacher, writer, and photographer, was recognized for "Reading the Literature of War: A Global Perspective on Ethnics" and Nancy Guillot Pearson, Salmen High School, Slidell, Louisiana, was recognized for "Classrooms That Discourage Plagiarism and Welcome Technology."
Richard Ohmann Award for an article in College English
In "We're Here and We're Not Going Anywhere: Why Working-Class Rhetorical Traditions Still Matter" Nancy Welch from the University of Vermont, Burlington, explains how today's composition courses should consider rhetorical strategies historically used by working-class movements, especially because this class still exists despite popular misconceptions that the world has fully entered a post-Fordist era.
English Leadership Quarterly Best Article Award
Anne Elrod Whitney and Bernard Badiali, both of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, consider in their article "Writing as Teacher Leadership" the moral responsibility involved in writing about one's teaching for general public audiences.
Janet Emig Award for Exemplary Scholarship for an article in English Education
"Cultural Citizenship and Cosmopolitan Practice: Global Youth Communicate Online," published in the July 2010 English Education, was chosen for this year's award; the article was written by Glynda A. Hull, professor of English Education at New York University; Amy Stornaiuolo, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley; and Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Studyhall Foundation in Lucknow, UP, India.
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