Kim Epting, associate professor of psychology, received the John R. Hayes Award for excellence in writing research in August during the closing session of the International Conference on Writing Research in Amsterdam.
The honor is awarded every two years and recognizes “oustanding quantitative or qualitiative empirical research in writing” in the previous two years (6 issues) of the Journal of Writing Research. A shortlist of papers is selected for consideration, which are then voted on by the editors, associate editors, and the award’s namesake, John R. Hayes. The winner of the Hayes award is invited to give a plenary address at the next International Conference of Writing Research.
The Hayes award is named for Professor Emeritus John R. Hayes at Carnegie Mellon University. Hayes is a pioneer in the cognitive science of writing.