Ellen Barton Wins Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award
Professor (and Director of Composition) Barton has been named a winner of Wayne State’s Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award. The award is presented annually to two members of the university’s graduate faculty whose scholarly achievements are judged to have contributed significantly to the University’s scholarly profile. Professor Barton’s previous awards include the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Braddock Award (2009); Technical Communication Quarterly’s Nell Ann Pickett Award (2009); and The National Council of Teachers of English awards for Best Article in Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication (2005), Best Article on Methods of Teaching Technical/Scientific Communication (2004), and Best Article on Philosophy or Theory in Scientific and Technical Communication (2002).