Programs and Areas
Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy
Harker wins 2009 Kitty O. Locker Prize for Business Communications
Michael Harker is this year’s recipient of the Kitty O. Locker Prize. Michael’s project comprises an integral part of the First Year Writing curriculum, Commonplace. The chapter he submitted for this prize delineates specifically classroom practices that make Commonplace’s peer-review system possible. Designed to teach students how to perform peer-review anonymously, respectfully, and professionally, this chapter includes sample review letters in the genre of memos. These sample memos emphasize composing skills, professional and intellectual dispositions, and maxims of professionalism that have functioned as cornerstones of technical and business communication for decades. As such, this pedagogical move beckons teachers and students to think more systematically about the writing process and the role of peer review in it. In doing so, it also marks an attempt at building some continuity among Composition Studies, Business Communication, and Rhetoric. The $1000 prize is awarded for an outstanding graduate student conference presentation, publication, or dissertation in business communication. The prize is made possible by donations to the Kitty O. Locker Memorial Fund.
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