2003

Winner: Diane Pecorari. "Good and original: Plagiarism and patchwriting in academic second-language writing" (12.4).

Honorable Mention: Joy Burrough-Boenisch. "Shapers of published NNS research articles" (12.3).

Honorable Mention: Vaihedi Ramanathan. "Written textual production and consumption (WTPC) in vernacular and English-medium settings in Gujarat, India" (12.2).

2002

Winner: Hiroe Kobayashi and Carol Rinnert. "High school student perceptions of first language literacy instruction: Implications for second language writing" (11.2)

Honorable Mention: Jan K. Buckwalter and Yi-Hsuan Gloria Lo. "Emergent biliteracy in Chinese and English" (11.4).

Honorable Mention: Robert B. Kaplan and William Grabe. "A modern history of written discourse analysis" (11.3).

2001

Winner: Fiona Hyland and Ken Hyland, "Sugaring the pill: Praise and criticism in written feedback" (10.3).

Honorable Mention: Paul Kei Matsuda, "Voice in Japanese written discourse: Implications for second language writing" (10.1/2).

Honorable Mention: Dana Ferris and Barrie Roberts, "Error feedback in L2 writing classes: How explicit does it need to be?" (10.3).

2000

Winner: Susan Parks. "Professional Writing and the Role of Incidental Collaboration: Evidence from a Medical Setting." (9.2).

Honorable Mention: Tim Ashwell. "Patterns of Teacher Response to Student Writing in a Multiple-Draft Composition Classroom." (9.3).

Honorable Mention: Miyuki Sasaki. "Toward an Empirical Model of EFL Writing Processes: An Exploratory Study." (9.3).

1999

Winner: Vai Ramanathan and Dwight Atkinson. "Individualism, Academic Writing, and ESL Writers" (8.2).

Honorable Mention: Susan M. Conrad and Lynn M. Goldstein. "ESL Student Revision After Teacher-Written Comments: Texts, Contexts, and Individuals" (8.2).

Honorable Mention: Julio Roca de Larios, Liz Murphy, and Rosa Manchon. "The Use of Restructuring Strategies in EFL Writing: A Study of Spanish Learners of English as a Foreign Language" (8.1).

1998

Winner: Richard H. Haswell. "Searching for Kiyoko: Bettering Mandatory ESL Writing Placement" (7.2).

Honorable Mention: Ryuko Kubota. "An Investigation of L1-L2 Transfer in Writing among Japanese University Students: Implications for Contrastive Rhetoric" (7.1).

Honorable Mention: Christine Pearson Casanave. "Transitions: The Balancing Act of Bilingual Academics" (7.2).

1997

Winner: Dana R. Ferris, Susan Pezone, Cathy R. Tade, and Sharee Tinti. "Teacher Commentary on Student Writing: Descriptions and Implications" (6.1).

Honorable Mention: Diane Belcher. "An Argument for Nonadversarial Argumentation: On the Relevance of the Feminist Critique of Academic Discourse to L2 Writing Pedagogy" (6.2).

Honorable Mention: Ken Hyland and John Milton. "Qualification and Certainty in L1 and L2 Students' Writing" (6.2).

1996

Winner: Kozue Uzawa. "Second Language Learners' Process of L1 Writing, L2 Writing, and Translation from L1 to L2" (5.3).

Honorable Mention: Joan Carson and Gayle Nelson. " Chinese Students' Perceptions of ESL Peer Response Group Interaction" (5.1).

Honorable Mention: Alister Cumming and Sufumi So. "Tutoring Second Language Text Revision: Does the Approach to Instruction or Language of Communication Make a Difference?" (5.3).

1995

Winner: Shuqiang Zhang. "Reexamining the Affective Advantage of Peer Feedback in the ESL Writing Class" (4.3).

Honorable Mention: Puangpen Intaraprawat and Margaret S. Steffensen. "The Use of Metadiscourse in Good and Poor ESL Essays" (4.3).

1994

Winner: Liz Hamp-Lyons and Sheila Prochnow Mathias. "Examining Expert Judgments of Task Difficulty on Essay Tests" (3.1).

Honorable Mention: Linda Lonon Blanton. "Discourse, Artifacts, and the Ozarks: Understanding Academic Literacy" (3.1).

Honorable Mention: Bob Weissberg. "Speaking of Writing: Some Functions of Talk in the ESL Composition Class" (3.2).

1993

Winner: Pat Currie. "Entering a Disciplinary Community: Conceptual Activities Required to Write for One Introductory University Course" (2.2).

Honorable Mention: Carol Severino. "The Sociopolitical Implications of Response to Second Language and Second Dialect Writing" (2.3).

Honorable Mention: Sandra Lee McKay. "Examining L2 Composition Ideology: A Look at literacy Education" (2.1).

1992 

Winner: Terry Santos. "Ideology in Composition: L1 and ESL" (1.1).

Honorable Mention: Jane Stanley. "Coaching Student Writers to Be Effective Peer Evaluators" (1.3).

Honorable Mention: Gayle Nelson and John Murphy. "An L2 Writing Group: Task and Social Dimensions" (1.3).