Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, is still accepting nominations for its 2025 Awards at this submission
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Visit the nomination form or the Kairos website to see details about the following awards, all due by March 15, 2025! Winners will be recognized at the May 2025 Computers and Writers Conference (need not be present to win).
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The Kairos Best Webtext Award for the best academic webtext published in the previous calendar year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos).
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The John Lovas Award for an outstanding online project (blog, podcast, etc.) devoted largely to academic pursuits.
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The Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty (teaching, scholarship, and service categories) to recognize outstanding contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service to the field of Computers and Writing by graduate students and contingent faculty.
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The Bill Hart-Davidson Mentorship Award, which recognizes exemplary mentorship in the field of Computers and Writing.
The Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty
Today, we specifically want to spotlight our three awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty
Three awards will be given to graduate students and/or contingent faculty in the field of computers and writing. These awards are based upon the three areas that guide our professional lives: Service, Scholarship, and Teaching.
We chose these areas because graduate students and contingent faculty are in fact professionals who do work in these areas, but who face institutional constraints that often undervalue—or flat out don’t recognize in some cases—the work they do. For many graduate students and contingent faculty, their service, scholarship, and teaching often do not translate into simple acknowledgment, let alone higher pay, more travel funds, and better working conditions.
Graduate students and contingent faculty working in fields relating to the mission of Kairos (computers and writing, rhetoric-and-technology, etc.) are eligible to be nominated for an award. Recipients can only win once per award but can be nominated/win for a different category in subsequent years.
Service Award
The Service Award is given to an individual whose work includes activities that promote excellent computers and writing pedagogy, theory, and community building.
Examples of service include, but are not limited to the following:
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Creating and artfully managing e-mail listservs, MOO spaces, webboard discussions, group blogs, wikis, or CMS community sites
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Serving on local campus, regional, or national committees related to our field
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Leading outreach, training, and workshops locally and/or at conferences
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Serving on C&W-oriented journal staff or editorial boards
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Volunteering time and expertise supporting the development of digital literacies
In your nomination letter and supporting documentation, please address the following items:
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Evidence of service. Please provide descriptions of and/or URLs for blogs, CMS, and/or workshop pages, archives of discussions, documents from committee work, and/or examples of editorial/journal work.
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Reach/Scope of service. Please provide information about the number of people who’ve attended workshops; diversity of people worked with; whether service takes the applicant outside usual academic networks to communities beyond the campus or the field.
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Value of service and Relation to the field. What does it accomplish/contribute within computers-and-writing studies; who does it help; how has it been received?
Scholarship/Research Award
The Scholarship Award is given to a person whose research and scholarship is already excellent and/or also shows future promise for having an impact on our field. The committee is not looking for "the webtext or article of the year" (for that type of award, please nominate for the Best Webtext Award), but rather a pattern of excellent scholarship.
Examples of scholarship include the following:
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Articles, webtexts, book chapters
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Reviews, interviews, or a series of in-depth discussion/listserv posts
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Conference presentations
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Textbooks and instructors’ guides
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Coursework papers, annotated bibliographies, and (lit) reviews
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Multimodal texts, written code, or software
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Editorial work, including collaborations with faculty or others
In your nomination letter, please address the following items:
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Currency of scholarship. How do the author’s ideas and insights add to the field?
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Reach/scope. Where did the scholarship appear? To what audience is it addressed?
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Value of scholarship to the field. To what extent does the scholarship situate itself among pedagogies and theory? Is there quantitative or qualitative data that support the scholarship’s value? How is the scholarship relevant to the computers-and-writing field?
Teaching Award
The Teaching Award is given to a person who uses computers and writing pedagogies in her or his classroom-based practice to promote student learning.
The following are possible locations/spaces of classroom-based practice:
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Computer-networked environments
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Smart classrooms (i.e., with instructor’s computer station)
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Hybrid courses (combinations of face-to-face and online teaching)
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Online/distance teaching, and
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Traditional classrooms
In your nomination letter, please address the following items:
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Pedagogy. Does it focus on computers and writing-related pedagogical values such as, but not limited to student-centered, interactive, and process-based learning? Please include (or attach) specific information about the courses, such as syllabi, course Web sites, assignments or assignment sequences, and/or a summary of recent course evaluations.
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Innovation. Do the assignment sequencing and activities take advantage of the pedagogy and technology available? Does the teacher teach writing and/or technologies in new ways, or ways that break from institutional/academic conventions?
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Reflection. What has the teacher learned and what can other teachers learn about the craft of teaching with technology from the practices described?
Submission Guidelines
We invite you to nominate outstanding graduate students and adjuncts with whom you have worked via this Google form.
This form will ask for the following:
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The name of the nominee
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The nominee’s contact information
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A statement of nomination (either from an individual who knows the student/adjunct well, or a self-nomination)
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A current CV for the nominee
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3–5 pieces of supporting documentation (could be URLs for sites that contain the documentation)