John R. Hayes award

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the John R. Hayes Award for excellence in writing research. This award ($ 1000), aims at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing and will be awarded biennially to an author or authors of an article published in the Journal of Writing Research.

The award is generously funded by John R. Hayes himself. Professor Hayes (Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh) is one of the most influential writing researchers since 1980. He has been a pioneer in introducing cognitive psychology in writing research. There is hardly one article on writing processes that does not cite one of his publications.

John R. Hayes award 2010

The winner of the John R. Hayes Award 2010 was selected by a committee appointed and chaired by a representation of the editors, i.c. Luuk Van Waes and Gert Rijlaarsdam. Articles were evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. The was announced at the Earli SIG Writing Conference in Heibelberg 2010.

The winner of the JoWR 2010 award is prof. dr. Ronald T. Kellogg, professor of Psychology at Saint Louis University, for his article "Training writing skills: A cognitive development perspective", Journal of Writing Research 1(1), 1-26 | Abstract | PDF