COMPUTERS and COMPOSITION 10(3), August 1993

At the Ninth Computers and Writing Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Editors of Computers and Composition, on behalf of the Editorial Board, awarded the 1992 prizes for outstanding scholarship in the field of computers and composition studies. Each of the awards highlights a dissertation or published article of exceptional merit. The Hugh Burns Award for Best Dissertation and the Ellen Nold Award for Best Article are annual prizes regularly awarded at the Computers and Writing conference.

For Best Dissertation in Computers and Composition Studies
The Hugh Burns Award

Tharon Howard, Clemson University

The Rhetoric of Electronic Communities. (1992). Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Purdue University.

For Best Article in Computers and Composition Studies
The Ellen Nold Award

Charles Moran, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

"Computers and the Writing Classroom: A Look to the Future." (1992). In G. E. Hawisher and P. LeBlanc, (Eds.), Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. 7-23.

The winners of the Hugh Burns and Ellen Nold Awards received a cash prize of $150. In addition, each of the winners and finalists was awarded a plaque noting the author's outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of computers and composition studies.

We invite all readers to submit nominations for the 1993 Computers and Composition Awards to Gail E. Hawisher, Department of English, 608 South Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801. Nominations should be received by January 1, 1994, and the prizes will be awarded at the Tenth Computers and Writing Conference at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

The Peddie School will dedicate this spring a new high-tech library that will give students access to e-mail, databases, CD ROMs and online services.

Students at the independent school near Princeton University won't have to leave their dorm rooms to use the library. Through a fiber-optic information network, students will be able to open an encyclopedia, read works by Shakespeare, research the rain forests, or ask for help. Day students will also be able to access the library from their home computers via modems. Boarding students who don't arrive in September with a PC will be able to use more than 60 networked campus computers.

The library will feature about 450 CD ROMs, a computerized catalog system, and 30 computer workstations. A computer lab in the library will be available for enhancing classroom instruction in all departments.

Through e-mail, the entire Peddie community can communicate via computer-from library, to dorm room, to faculty lounge, to a day student's home 20 miles away. Students will have private mailboxes on the network and access to computer tools such as word-processing programs and spreadsheets.