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IN PROGRESS

Young, Beth Rapp. "Cooling Down the Hot Spots: How Students Can Assess Themselves to Achieve Successful Writing Center Consultations." Writing Center Journal. Accepted with revision; revisions are underway.

As writing center scholarship becomes more theoretically diverse, foundational concepts such as "nondirectiveness" have become controversial. This empirical study investigates the effects of this controversy on writing center practice and suggests how writing center participants (directors, consultants, writers) can assess their consultations in progress rather than after-the-fact. For this research, consultation transcripts were rated for quality by 30 writing center directors; separately, the transcripts were coded for rhetorical function to provide a descriptive overview of their rhetorical features. Features associated with unsuccessful and successful consultations were identified. Successful consultations were associated with consultant's stating of criteria, writer explanations, writer plans, longer writer statements, and a high proportion of talk focused on the writing project. Less successful consultations were associated with discourse markers such as "um" and "okay," consultant's asking of test questions, consultant clarifications, writer encouragers, and a high proportion of talk focused on procedural matters. Less successful consultation features are "hot spots" that participants can use to recognize potential problems and adjust their practice while a writing center consultation is underway. Attention to hot spots also shows why contemporary concepts such as Iris Marion Young's "asymmetrical reciprocity" better explain our practice than earlier assumptions about peerness and nondirectiveness. Specific strategies for student writers and writing consultants are suggested.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Perpetual Children and Invisible Mothers: The Rhetoric of Adoption Debates." Presented initial findings at CCCC 2004.

Over the past few years, laws relating to adoption have been changing dramatically. Two hotly contested issues are being debated in several state legislatures around the U.S. right now: (1) proposals to release sealed records to adopted adults (some states are moving towards more openness, others towards more permanent closures) and (2) proposals to establish "safe havens" for infant abandonment (some states are embracing these laws although they completely reverse previous child welfare policies). These changes have been accompanied by heated public debate, much of which centers on rhetorical issues. For example, adoptee advocacy groups frequently blame the phrase "adopted child" for fostering the treatment of adoptees as perpetual children under the law. This project is a feminist rhetorical analysis of how adoptees and birthmothers speak and are spoken for in these debates.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Finding Errors: The Way You Read Matters." Data collection is complete; analysis is in progress.

We tell students to proofread, but often students do not know any systematic methods for proofreading effectively. This experimental study demonstrates that proofreading method influences the errors that student writers locate. Implications for teaching are discussed.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Error Frequency and Error Gravity in Junior Level Business Writing" Data collection is complete; analysis is in progress.

This study was arose from the need to assess the UCF Business Grading Center. A random sample of graded papers written for the UCF Cornerstone business class is currently being collected. Error patterns in these papers will be identified; then local business leaders and business faculty will be surveyed to determine which error patterns are viewed most negatively (this survey will possibly be done as an experimental study b/c a very similar study by someone else was published in the a major journal during Fall 2001, which means I'll need to do something to build on that study). Results will not only be publishable, they will help the University Writing Center and Business Grading Center target services more effectively for UCF students. CBA Assoc. Dean Taylor Ellis requests that this study be followed by a similar investigation of senior-level business writers.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT

Fritzsche, Barbara A., Beth Rapp Young, and Kara C. Hickson. "Individual Differences in Procrastination Tendency and Writing Success." Personality and Individual Differences 35 (November 2003): 1549-1557. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp, and Barbara A. Fritzsche. "Writing Center Users Procrastinate Less: The Relationship between Individual Differences in Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and Student Writing Success." Writing Center Journal 23 (Fall/Winter 2002): 45-58. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Defending Child Medical Neglect: Christian Science Persuasive Rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 20:3/4 (October 2001): 268-92. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Using Heuristics from Other Disciplines in the Writing Center." Writing Lab Newsletter 25:9 (May 2001): 6-8. [national refereed newsletter]

Young, Beth Rapp, and Emily Dziuban. "Understanding Dependency and Passivity: Reactive behavior patterns in writing centers." Writing Center Journal 21:1 (Fall/Winter 2000): 67-87. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Can You Proofread This?" A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. 111-26. [refereed book chapter]

Young, Beth Rapp. "What Happens Next? How Reading Genre Fiction Is Like Reading Hypertext." Reader 38/39 (Fall/Spring 1997-98). 83-100. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and theArt of Popular Romance." Paradoxa 3:1-2 (Mar. 1997): 29-45. [national refereed journal]

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS - National

Young, Beth Rapp. "Perpetual Children and Invisible Mothers: The Rhetoric of Adoption Open Records Debates." Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). San Antonio, TX, 25 March 2004.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Beyond Error Hunting: Finding and Teaching a Proofreading Process." International Writing Centers Association Conference. Savannah, 11 April 2002.

Young, Beth Rapp. "How Writing Centers Can Help Procrastinators: Interrelationships between Peer Writing Support, Procrastination, and Student Writing Success." CCCC. Denver, 14 March 2001.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Suggestions for Midterm Review of Faculty Writing Center Directors." (Inter)National Writing Centers Association Conference (NWCA). Baltimore, Nov. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp and Rachel Squires. "How Does Tutor Talk Compare to Teacher Talk?" CCCC. Minneapolis, 15 Apr. 2000.

Geller, Anne Ellen, Joan Hawthorne, Susan Wolff Murphy, and Beth Rapp Young. "Piles of Tapes and Pages of Text: Working with and Learning from Transcripts of the Writing Center." Workshop. CCCC. Minneapolis, 12 Apr. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Interrelationships between Writing Apprehension and Writing Center Use." National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW). University Park, PA, Oct. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Using Religious Freedom to Justify Child Neglect." Law And Society Annual Mtg. Chicago: 29 May 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Ethics & the ESOL Writer." CCCC. Atlanta, 25 Mar. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Can You Proofread This?" NCPTW. Plattsburgh, NY, 7 Nov. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Writing Centers and Intellectual Property." CCCC. Chicago, 2 Apr. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "OWLs: The State of the Art." Poster Session. NWCA. Salt Lake City, 18 Sept. '97.

Young, Beth Rapp. "When the Volcano Blows: Helping Consultants Cope." NCPTW. Oklahoma City, OK, 26 Oct. 1996.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Formula Fiction and Hypertext." CCCC. Milwaukee, 27 Mar. 1996. ERIC document ED 397 417.

Young, Beth Rapp. "They Started Without Me: Tales of a New Director at an Established Writing Center." NCPTW. Muncie, IN, 28 Oct. 1995.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Collaboration for Global Communities: A Writing Center Perspective." NWCA. St. Louis, 29 Sept. 1995.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Popular Novels and the Literary Canon." College English Association (CEA). Cleveland, 30 Mar. 1995.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Hypertext as Metaphor for Literacy." CCCC. Washington, D.C., 24 Mar. 1995.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "On Whose Authority? When Students Build Learning Communities." National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Orlando, 18 Nov. 1994.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Personal Writing and Academic Rigor." CEA. Orlando, 9 Apr. 1994.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Breeding the 'Evil Twin' in the Composition Classroom." CCCC. Nashville, 18 Mar. 1994. ERIC document ED 372 413.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Identifying Campus Diversity in Writing Centers." 25th Annual Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning (ITL). Chicago, 19 Nov. 1993.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS - Regional

Young, Beth Rapp. "Under What Conditions Are Student Writers Most Productive?" Southeast Writing Centers Association Conference (SWCA). Auburn, AL, 16 Feb. 2001.

Cureton, Christina, Barbara A. Fritzsche, and Beth Rapp Young. "The Relationship between Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and School Performance." Poster presentation. Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, 30 Mar. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp. "You've Got Personality: Using Reactive Behavior Types in the Writing Center." SWCA. Savannah, GA, 4 Feb. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Not Just a Class Act: Nonacademic Writing in the Writing Center." SWCA. Macon, GA, 24 Apr. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "2001 Ways Technology Supports the Muse." Florida College English Association (FCEA). Mt. Dora, 5 Feb. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "A Thousand Pairs of Eyes: Revising Our Visions of the Writer." FCEA. St. Petersburg Beach, 2 Feb. 1995.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Touching Other Disciplines: How Consulting Is Informed by Different Ways of Knowing." SWCA. Augusta, GA, 19 Apr. 1997.

Young, Beth Rapp. "What's a Peer Tutor to Do?" SWCA. Myrtle Beach, 2 Feb. 1996.
Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Keeping a Strong Writing Center Fresh." SWCA. Atlanta, 6 Nov. 1993.

OTHER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Young, Beth Rapp. "Teaching Grammar through Games, Search Engines, and Student Projects." Showcase presentation. UCF Technology Fair. Orlando, 27 Mar. 2002.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Using Web Browsers to Learn about Grammar." Showcase presentation. UCF Instructional Technology Showcase & Expo. Orlando, 2 Mar. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Increasing Accessibility and Institutional Effectiveness through Online Scheduling & Data Collection." Presentation. UCF Instructional Technology Expo. Orlando, 2 Mar. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Transformative Effects of Working in Writing Centers." Keynote Presentation. National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW). Plattsburgh, NY, 7 Nov., 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Expanding the Canon: Some Models for the Sophomore Literature Survey." College English Association (CEA). New Orleans, 4-6 Apr. 1996.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Divine Frenzy: How Writing Centers Engage Order and Chaos to Create New Paradigms." Southeast Writing Centers Association (SWCA). Winter Park, FL, 28 Oct. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, & Beth Rapp Young. "Stories from the Center." NCPTW. Birmingham, Nov. '94.

Young, Beth Rapp. "On Lost Travels Not Written Of." Respondent. CEA. Orlando, 8 Apr. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "When Students Raise the Standards." Florida Council of Teachers of English. Tampa, 25 Mar. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "New Opportunities for Faculty in Writing Centers." CUNY Writing Center Assoc. New York, 4 Mar. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Keeping a Strong Writing Center Fresh." SWCA. Atlanta, 6 Nov. 1993.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Problems in Publication." Discussant. CCCC. San Diego, 2 Apr. 1993.

RESEARCH AWARDS & GRANTS RECEIVED

Nomination for Outstanding Scholarship Award, Best Article in 2001, International Writing Centers Association.

Young, Beth Rapp, and Barbara A. Fritzsche. "The Relationship between Individual Differences in Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and Student Writing Success."National Writing Centers Association Research Grant. $750. 2000-2001.

Young, Beth Rapp, and Barbara A. Fritzsche. "The Relationship between Individual Differences in Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and Student Writing Success." In-House Faculty Research Grant. UCF. $3205. Spring 2000.

IN PROGRESS

Young, Beth Rapp. "Cooling Down the Hot Spots: How Students Can Assess Themselves to Achieve Successful Writing Center Consultations." Writing Center Journal. Accepted with revision; revisions are underway.

As writing center scholarship becomes more theoretically diverse, foundational concepts such as "nondirectiveness" have become controversial. This empirical study investigates the effects of this controversy on writing center practice and suggests how writing center participants (directors, consultants, writers) can assess their consultations in progress rather than after-the-fact. For this research, consultation transcripts were rated for quality by 30 writing center directors; separately, the transcripts were coded for rhetorical function to provide a descriptive overview of their rhetorical features. Features associated with unsuccessful and successful consultations were identified. Successful consultations were associated with consultant's stating of criteria, writer explanations, writer plans, longer writer statements, and a high proportion of talk focused on the writing project. Less successful consultations were associated with discourse markers such as "um" and "okay," consultant's asking of test questions, consultant clarifications, writer encouragers, and a high proportion of talk focused on procedural matters. Less successful consultation features are "hot spots" that participants can use to recognize potential problems and adjust their practice while a writing center consultation is underway. Attention to hot spots also shows why contemporary concepts such as Iris Marion Young's "asymmetrical reciprocity" better explain our practice than earlier assumptions about peerness and nondirectiveness. Specific strategies for student writers and writing consultants are suggested.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Perpetual Children and Invisible Mothers: The Rhetoric of Adoption Debates." Presented initial findings at CCCC 2004.

Over the past few years, laws relating to adoption have been changing dramatically. Two hotly contested issues are being debated in several state legislatures around the U.S. right now: (1) proposals to release sealed records to adopted adults (some states are moving towards more openness, others towards more permanent closures) and (2) proposals to establish "safe havens" for infant abandonment (some states are embracing these laws although they completely reverse previous child welfare policies). These changes have been accompanied by heated public debate, much of which centers on rhetorical issues. For example, adoptee advocacy groups frequently blame the phrase "adopted child" for fostering the treatment of adoptees as perpetual children under the law. This project is a feminist rhetorical analysis of how adoptees and birthmothers speak and are spoken for in these debates.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Finding Errors: The Way You Read Matters." Data collection is complete; analysis is in progress.

We tell students to proofread, but often students do not know any systematic methods for proofreading effectively. This experimental study demonstrates that proofreading method influences the errors that student writers locate. Implications for teaching are discussed.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Error Frequency and Error Gravity in Junior Level Business Writing" Data collection is complete; analysis is in progress.

This study was arose from the need to assess the UCF Business Grading Center. A random sample of graded papers written for the UCF Cornerstone business class is currently being collected. Error patterns in these papers will be identified; then local business leaders and business faculty will be surveyed to determine which error patterns are viewed most negatively (this survey will possibly be done as an experimental study b/c a very similar study by someone else was published in the a major journal during Fall 2001, which means I'll need to do something to build on that study). Results will not only be publishable, they will help the University Writing Center and Business Grading Center target services more effectively for UCF students. CBA Assoc. Dean Taylor Ellis requests that this study be followed by a similar investigation of senior-level business writers.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT

Fritzsche, Barbara A., Beth Rapp Young, and Kara C. Hickson. "Individual Differences in Procrastination Tendency and Writing Success." Personality and Individual Differences 35 (November 2003): 1549-1557. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp, and Barbara A. Fritzsche. "Writing Center Users Procrastinate Less: The Relationship between Individual Differences in Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and Student Writing Success." Writing Center Journal 23 (Fall/Winter 2002): 45-58. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Defending Child Medical Neglect: Christian Science Persuasive Rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 20:3/4 (October 2001): 268-92. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Using Heuristics from Other Disciplines in the Writing Center." Writing Lab Newsletter 25:9 (May 2001): 6-8. [national refereed newsletter]

Young, Beth Rapp, and Emily Dziuban. "Understanding Dependency and Passivity: Reactive behavior patterns in writing centers." Writing Center Journal 21:1 (Fall/Winter 2000): 67-87. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Can You Proofread This?" A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. 111-26. [refereed book chapter]

Young, Beth Rapp. "What Happens Next? How Reading Genre Fiction Is Like Reading Hypertext." Reader 38/39 (Fall/Spring 1997-98). 83-100. [national refereed journal]

Young, Beth Rapp. "Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and theArt of Popular Romance." Paradoxa 3:1-2 (Mar. 1997): 29-45. [national refereed journal]

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS - National

Young, Beth Rapp. "Perpetual Children and Invisible Mothers: The Rhetoric of Adoption Open Records Debates." Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). San Antonio, TX, 25 March 2004.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Beyond Error Hunting: Finding and Teaching a Proofreading Process." International Writing Centers Association Conference. Savannah, 11 April 2002.

Young, Beth Rapp. "How Writing Centers Can Help Procrastinators: Interrelationships between Peer Writing Support, Procrastination, and Student Writing Success." CCCC. Denver, 14 March 2001.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Suggestions for Midterm Review of Faculty Writing Center Directors." (Inter)National Writing Centers Association Conference (NWCA). Baltimore, Nov. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp and Rachel Squires. "How Does Tutor Talk Compare to Teacher Talk?" CCCC. Minneapolis, 15 Apr. 2000.

Geller, Anne Ellen, Joan Hawthorne, Susan Wolff Murphy, and Beth Rapp Young. "Piles of Tapes and Pages of Text: Working with and Learning from Transcripts of the Writing Center." Workshop. CCCC. Minneapolis, 12 Apr. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Interrelationships between Writing Apprehension and Writing Center Use." National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW). University Park, PA, Oct. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Using Religious Freedom to Justify Child Neglect." Law And Society Annual Mtg. Chicago: 29 May 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Ethics & the ESOL Writer." CCCC. Atlanta, 25 Mar. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Can You Proofread This?" NCPTW. Plattsburgh, NY, 7 Nov. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Writing Centers and Intellectual Property." CCCC. Chicago, 2 Apr. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "OWLs: The State of the Art." Poster Session. NWCA. Salt Lake City, 18 Sept. '97.

Young, Beth Rapp. "When the Volcano Blows: Helping Consultants Cope." NCPTW. Oklahoma City, OK, 26 Oct. 1996.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Formula Fiction and Hypertext." CCCC. Milwaukee, 27 Mar. 1996. ERIC document ED 397 417.

Young, Beth Rapp. "They Started Without Me: Tales of a New Director at an Established Writing Center." NCPTW. Muncie, IN, 28 Oct. 1995.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Collaboration for Global Communities: A Writing Center Perspective." NWCA. St. Louis, 29 Sept. 1995.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Popular Novels and the Literary Canon." College English Association (CEA). Cleveland, 30 Mar. 1995.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Hypertext as Metaphor for Literacy." CCCC. Washington, D.C., 24 Mar. 1995.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "On Whose Authority? When Students Build Learning Communities." National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Orlando, 18 Nov. 1994.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Personal Writing and Academic Rigor." CEA. Orlando, 9 Apr. 1994.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Breeding the 'Evil Twin' in the Composition Classroom." CCCC. Nashville, 18 Mar. 1994. ERIC document ED 372 413.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Identifying Campus Diversity in Writing Centers." 25th Annual Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning (ITL). Chicago, 19 Nov. 1993.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS - Regional

Young, Beth Rapp. "Under What Conditions Are Student Writers Most Productive?" Southeast Writing Centers Association Conference (SWCA). Auburn, AL, 16 Feb. 2001.

Cureton, Christina, Barbara A. Fritzsche, and Beth Rapp Young. "The Relationship between Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and School Performance." Poster presentation. Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, 30 Mar. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp. "You've Got Personality: Using Reactive Behavior Types in the Writing Center." SWCA. Savannah, GA, 4 Feb. 2000.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Not Just a Class Act: Nonacademic Writing in the Writing Center." SWCA. Macon, GA, 24 Apr. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "2001 Ways Technology Supports the Muse." Florida College English Association (FCEA). Mt. Dora, 5 Feb. 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "A Thousand Pairs of Eyes: Revising Our Visions of the Writer." FCEA. St. Petersburg Beach, 2 Feb. 1995.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Touching Other Disciplines: How Consulting Is Informed by Different Ways of Knowing." SWCA. Augusta, GA, 19 Apr. 1997.

Young, Beth Rapp. "What's a Peer Tutor to Do?" SWCA. Myrtle Beach, 2 Feb. 1996.
Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Keeping a Strong Writing Center Fresh." SWCA. Atlanta, 6 Nov. 1993.

OTHER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Young, Beth Rapp. "Teaching Grammar through Games, Search Engines, and Student Projects." Showcase presentation. UCF Technology Fair. Orlando, 27 Mar. 2002.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Using Web Browsers to Learn about Grammar." Showcase presentation. UCF Instructional Technology Showcase & Expo. Orlando, 2 Mar. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Increasing Accessibility and Institutional Effectiveness through Online Scheduling & Data Collection." Presentation. UCF Instructional Technology Expo. Orlando, 2 Mar. 1999.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Transformative Effects of Working in Writing Centers." Keynote Presentation. National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW). Plattsburgh, NY, 7 Nov., 1998.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Expanding the Canon: Some Models for the Sophomore Literature Survey." College English Association (CEA). New Orleans, 4-6 Apr. 1996.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Divine Frenzy: How Writing Centers Engage Order and Chaos to Create New Paradigms." Southeast Writing Centers Association (SWCA). Winter Park, FL, 28 Oct. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, & Beth Rapp Young. "Stories from the Center." NCPTW. Birmingham, Nov. '94.

Young, Beth Rapp. "On Lost Travels Not Written Of." Respondent. CEA. Orlando, 8 Apr. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "When Students Raise the Standards." Florida Council of Teachers of English. Tampa, 25 Mar. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "New Opportunities for Faculty in Writing Centers." CUNY Writing Center Assoc. New York, 4 Mar. 1994.

Papay, Twila Yates, and Beth Rapp Young. "Keeping a Strong Writing Center Fresh." SWCA. Atlanta, 6 Nov. 1993.

Young, Beth Rapp. "Problems in Publication." Discussant. CCCC. San Diego, 2 Apr. 1993.

RESEARCH AWARDS & GRANTS RECEIVED

Nomination for Outstanding Scholarship Award, Best Article in 2001, International Writing Centers Association.

Young, Beth Rapp, and Barbara A. Fritzsche. "The Relationship between Individual Differences in Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and Student Writing Success."National Writing Centers Association Research Grant. $750. 2000-2001.

Young, Beth Rapp, and Barbara A. Fritzsche. "The Relationship between Individual Differences in Procrastination, Peer Feedback, and Student Writing Success." In-House Faculty Research Grant. UCF. $3205. Spring 2000.