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<span style="font-size:18pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:700">2020 ARSTM Book Award</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Book Award recognizes exceptional books that advance the rhetoric of science, technology,
or medicine. </span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">Any book published in the preceding two years is eligible. For example, books eligible for the 2020 award would have been published in 2018 or
2019).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Criteria for evaluation are as follows:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">1. How well the book extends or enacts practical and theoretical knowledge related to the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">2. Potential for cross-disciplinary fertilization and/or public engagement;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">3. Potential for teaching future generations of the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine scholars;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">4. The accuracy, clarity, and organization of the book’s presentation;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">5. The overall quality of writing and thinking.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:700">Nominations</span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400"> should be sent by someone well acquainted with the nominee’s
work; self-nominations are encouraged.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:700">Judging
</span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">follows a two-stage review process.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">The initial nomination package must include an electronic copy of (1) a cover letter recommending the book for the award (limited to two pages and providing
a detailed rationale for the nomination), (2) a table of contents for the book, and (3) the introduction and a single representative chapter from the book.
</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">These materials must be emailed to the chair of the selection committee by June 30, 2020.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">Following a preliminary selection process, finalists will be notified by</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">
August 1</span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">. Full copies of manuscripts or published books that advance to the final round will be requested for delivery to each committee member
by </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">August 15.</span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"> Winners will be announced by
</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">October 1</span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Recipients will be recognized at the ARSTM business meeting during the National Communication Association in November of the award year and will receive a plaque and
a one-year membership in ARSTM.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">While each book is eligible for two years after its publication date, in order to be considered a second time, the book must be re-nominated. Because awards committee
members change each year, re-nomination requires resubmitting the nomination package. If you were a finalist in the previous year, full copies of the book will only be required for any new committee members, not the entire committee.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Note: Lead authors who have won previously cannot be nominated again within 5 years.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">Send nomination packages electronically to Aimee Kendall Roundtree, Chair of the Book Award Committee, at akr@txstate.edu</span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">.
</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">Nominations should be sent as a PDF email attachment and received by June 30, 2020.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">The Committee is appointed every year by the ARSTM President; it will include at least one previous winner and two other members of ARSTM selected to ensure representation
of the major fields of interest: science, technology, and medicine. </span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">The President will appoint committee members with experience writing, publishing, reviewing,
and judging books in the field of rhetorical studies of science, technology, and medicine.</span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400"> One member of each year’s committee will be appointed to serve a
two-year term—one year as a member and another as chair. </span><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#000000; font-weight:400">If the winner has cause not to participate, the President will appoint an alternative person to serve
a one-year term. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:700">Committee Members for 2020</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Aimee Kendall Roundtree (Chair), Professor, Texas State University (</span><a href="mailto:akr@txstate.edu"><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#1155cc; font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip-ink:none">akr@txstate.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">) </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Emily Winderman, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Christa Teston, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:#201f1e; font-weight:400">Carolyn Miller, Emeritus Professor, North Carolina State University</span></p>
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