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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3 color="#cc0000"
face="Baskerville Old Face"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
color:#CC0000;font-weight:bold'>Announcing the 2008 Mary Nell Kivikko
Excellence in Scholarship Award <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3 color="#cc0000"
face="Baskerville Old Face"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
color:#CC0000;font-weight:bold'>Sponsored by the North Texas Writing Centers
Association<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Baskerville Old Face"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"'>The North Texas Writing Center Association
is now accepting entries for the 2008 Mary Nell Kivikko Excellence in
Scholarship Award. The award is open to all writing center professional staff,
graduate tutors, and undergraduate peer tutors in the South Central Writing
Center Association region (<st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Arkansas</st1:State>, and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:State></st1:place>). Proposals
should focus on the subject area of writing center theory and practice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Baskerville Old Face"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"'>The paper based on the winning proposal
will be presented at the NTWCA Spring Conference to be held in April of 2008,
at which time the winner will receive the award. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Baskerville Old Face"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"'>The 250-word abstract of the entry should
include a title and the name and contact information of the presenter. Please
submit entries to Cheryl Carithers (<a href="mailto:c.carithers@tcu.edu"
title="mailto:c.carithers@tcu.edu">c.carithers@tcu.edu</a>), NTWCA President,
by </span></font><b><font color="#cc0000" face="Baskerville Old Face"><span
style='font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";color:#CC0000;font-weight:bold'>February
15, 2008</span></font></b><font face="Baskerville Old Face"><span
style='font-family:"Baskerville Old Face"'>. Electronic submissions only,
please. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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