Writing in the Disciplines Awards

Call for Nominations

The Office for Faculty Affairs will begin accepting nominations on Monday, October 21st, 2024 for the 2025 Faculty Honors Ceremony. Individuals nominating a faculty member or graduate student for these awards should submit the nomination form using InfoReady.

Nomination form due: Friday, December 6th, 2024
Department endorsement of nominee due: Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
Nomination package due: Friday, January 17th, 2025

Nominate Here

The University Writing Program honors faculty members and graduate teaching assistants each year who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and planning Writing in the Disciplines (WID) courses. Please click the links below to jump to a specific award.

Joseph P. Dymond WID Distinguished Teaching Award
WID Best Assignment Design Award
WID Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award

Joseph P. Dymond Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Award
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Writing in the Disciplines Best Assignment Design Award

The Joseph P. Dymond WID Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated dedication, excellence, and innovation in the teaching of Writing in the Disciplines courses.

The WID Best Assignment Design Award recognizes excellence in assignment design and implementation.

Students, fellow faculty, and chairs may nominate faculty for these awards. Faculty may also self-nominate. Faculty are considered for both the Dymond Award and the Assignment Design Award at the same time; only one nomination and packet is required.

The Award Criteria, Selection Process, and Deadlines below are applicable to both the Dymond and Best Assignment Design Awards.

Award Criteria

The nominee must have taught at least three complete semesters of WID.
The design of the nominee’s WID course(s) must reflect an informed and innovative approach to the WID criteria, including the:
- development of students’ capacities as writers within a particular disciplinary context
- scaffolding of writing assignments throughout the term
- process of drafting and revising with faculty feedback
- practice of providing and receiving substantive feedback from peers
For the Dymond Award, special consideration will be given to WID work beyond teaching, for example through workshop leadership, curricular development, conference presentations, or professional activities related to student writing.

Selection Process

The process:

Nomination form must be completed by the deadline (below) and the nominating party (student, colleague, or chair) must notify the nominee.
The nominee is responsible for submitting the materials listed below by the deadline (below), compiled as a single PDF document and emailed to [email protected]:
- A letter of support from the nominee’s chair, explaining the nominee’s WID teaching and contributions to WID (1-2 pages).
- A letter of application from the nominee addressing their use of WID principles and practices, including how assignments elicit high achievement from student writers (2-3 pages).
- Relevant course documents, including syllabus, major assignments, scaffolding materials, handouts, etc. (about 10-20 pages).
- One or two examples (short or excerpted) of student writing (about 6 pages).
- 1-3 letters from students in support of the nomination (3-6 pages).
- Any additional evidence of teaching effectiveness and contribution to WID, including within the department, school, university, or profession.
- CV (no page limit).
The entire PDF must not exceed 35 pages, exclusive of nominee's CV. The PDF must be named "Last Name, First Name WID Fac Award Nomination 2025."
Email the PDF to to [email protected] with the subject heading: "Last Name, First Name - WID Fac Award Nomination 2025" to ensure it goes to the proper queue.

Deadlines

12/2/2024: Nomination forms for 2025 are due via InfoReady
1/10/2025: Submission packets due to [email protected] with the subject heading: "Last Name, First Name - WID Fac Award Nomination 2025" to ensure it goes to the proper queue.

The submission package should be a maximum of 35 pages, exclusive of nominee's CV.

*Nomination materials will not be returned*

Please contact [email protected] or 202-242-5327 with any questions.

Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award

This award recognizes outstanding contributions by graduate students to the teaching of writing at GW, either as a graduate assistant or as instructor of record in a WID course.

Undergraduate students, fellow graduate students, faculty mentors, directors of graduate studies, and department chairs may nominate graduate students for this award. Graduate students may also self-nominate.