Joyce Kinkead Wins Best Book Award

Joyce Kinkead Wins Best Book Award

The Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) announced that The Center Will Hold, edited by Utah State University's Joyce Kinkead has won the WPA's 2004 Best Book Award.

"The Center Will Hold suggests a new agenda for research and teaching in writing centers and signals a turn toward the future in writing center scholarship," said Michael Spooner, director of USU Press.

The Center Will Hold sets a high standard for future awards, said WPA president Chris Anson (North Carolina State University) in his award announcement.

Kinkead is vice provost for Undergraduate Studies and Research at Utah State. The book, which Kinkead co-edited with Michael Pemberton of Georgia Southern University, was published last fall by the Utah State University Press.

Every two years, the Council of Writing Program Administrators selects a book published in the previous two years for its Best Book Award. The award was established to develop and promote an understanding of writing program administration as intellectual work of depth, sophistication and significance.

For more information on The Center Will Hold, call Brooke Bigelow at Utah State University Press, 1-800-239-9974.