The 1998 winner, announced on May 29 at the Computers & Writing Conference at the University of Florida, was "Hypertext Reflections: Exploring the Rhetoric, Poetic, and Pragmatics of Hypertext" by Mike Palmquist, Will Hochman, Beth Kolko, Emily Golson, Jonathan Alexander, Luann Barnes, and Kate Kiefer: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/bridge.html

The winners received a package of software and other materials generously donated by Daedalus Integrated Writing Environments, Norton, SixthFloor and Lilikoi as well as a plaque and a small cash award.

Other finalists for the 1998 award were:
Doug Brent's "Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy"
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/features/brent/bridge.html
and Sandye Thompson's "Speaking of the MOOn: Textual Realities and the Body Electric"
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/coverweb/sandye/tunnel1.html

The winner and finalists were chosen, after an initial open nominations process, via anonymous ballot by the Kairos Editorial Staff and Board, along with the invited ballots of all previous finalists. To be eligible for the award, the nominated Web text must have been published during the calendar year 1997, and be available free via the World-Wide Web.

Issue 3.2 To Feature Edited Proceedings of C&W Conference
Kairos is pleased to announce that its forthcoming Fall 1998 issue (3.2) will feature at least in part an edited Proceedings of the 14th annual Computers & Writing Conference in Gainesville just concluded.

All presenters at the conference will be invited to publish annotated, linked abstracts of their presentations, and to submit fully Webbed presentations of their work for editorial review and possible publication in a "Best of C&W" overview.

The special issue will be guest edited by News Editor James Inman of the University of Michigan, who will lead an editorial team which includes Barry Maid of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Lisa Gerrard of the University of California at Los Angeles, and Donna Sewell of Valdosta State University. For further information, contact Inman at jinman@umich.edu.

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