[ATTW-L] Call for Nominations: Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research

[Karen Schriver]

Call for Nominations: STC 2019 Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research
 
The Society for Technical Communication is pleased to open nominations for the 2019 Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research. As you may know, Ken Rainey was a professor at Southern Polytechnic State University and a Society for Technical Communication (STC) Fellow who produced major research studies in  technical communication. Ken passed away in 2006, but during his years of service to STC, he designed and published many studies that helped connect what is taught in the classroom with what technical communicators do in the workplace.
 
To celebrate and honor Ken Rainey’s passion for research that results in improvements to technical communication, especially to practice, the Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research has the following goals:
·      Acknowledge the importance and value of exemplary research to the field of technical communication.
·      Encourage quality and excellence in technical communication research by honoring those whose research studies have made an outstanding contribution to the field.
·      Recognize research that makes an outstanding contribution to practice as a priority, but research that strengthens or extends curricula will also be considered worthy of this award.
 
All research methods will qualify for this award. Examples are (a) empirical work that a researcher describes as quantitative, qualitative, case study, ethnographic, naturalistic, survey, usability, archival, bibliographic, etc., or (b) modeling or other new approaches not yet applied to technical communication studies.
 
Guidelines for Nominees
Nominees must be current members of the Society for Technical Communication and need to have been STC members for at least twelve months prior to the nomination. STC members are eligible regardless of other STC honors or awards received (Fellow or Associate Fellow, President’s Award, and so on). Current members of the Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research Committee and STC board of directors are not eligible to be nominated for this award. This award will not be given twice to the same person.
 
Nominees must fit one or both of these categories:
 
·      An STC member who has conducted a lifetime of quality research that has made significant contributions to the field of technical communication.
 
            or
 
·      An STC member who has made a significant contribution to the field of technical communication due to a high-quality, single empirical study or a high-quality set of related empirical studies.
 
Although nominations for both categories will be accepted each year, the award committee will decide each year which category of researcher will be recognized. A person’s longevity in the field will not be a factor in the award.
 
Self-nominations are allowed, as are nominations from anyone else in the field.
 
About the award
The award is presented annually with just a single award recipient in any given year. The committee has the discretion not to bestow any awards if it determines that no nominees meet the award criteria. The award is presented at the Honors Banquet at the STC Summit.
 
Criteria for nominations
The researcher must have accomplished the following:
·      Identified one or more problems of clear and compelling relevance to practitioners and/or academics.
·      Developed a quality research design, including an appropriate match between methods and the focus and purpose of the inquiry.
·      Relied upon sound methods for data collection and data analysis.
·      Applied appropriate measures to ensure ethical protection of study participants.
·      Reported results in ways that have influenced or have promise to influence practice, theory, or teaching in the field.
·      Demonstrated positive impact on the field.
 
Submission information
Send the full name, email address, postal address, and phone number of the nominee to the committee chair, Karen Schriver at: kschriver at earthlink.net <mailto:kschriver at earthlink.net> or kschriver00 at gmail.com
 
Deadline for submitting nominations
November 15, 2018
 
 Kind regards,
Karen 

Karen Schriver, PhD		
KSA Communication Design & Research, Inc.
33 Potomac Street, Oakmont, PA  15139  USA

412.828.8791
kschriver at earthlink.net


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