Each year, we present the Kairos Best Webtext Award at the annual Computers and Writing Conference; beginning in 2004, in conjunction with KairosNews, we also began awarding the first annual Kairos Best Academic Weblog, which was renamed the John Lovas Memorial Best Academic Weblog Award in honor of scholar, teacher, and blogger John Lovas.

Below is a list of past award winners.

1997

The 1997 Kairos Best Webtext Awards were presented at the 1997 Computers and Writing Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

1997 Winner

Karen McGrane Chauss: "Reader as User: Applying Interface Design Techniques to the Web"

1997 Finalists

Keith Dorwick: "Rethinking the Academy: Problems and Possibilities of Teaching, Scholarship, Authority, and Power in Electronic Environments"

Johndan Johnson-Eilola: "Stories and Maps: Postmodernism and Professional Communication"

1998

The 1998 Kairos Best Webtext Awards were presented at the 1998 Computers and Writing Conference, Gainesville, Florida.

1998 Winner

Mike Palmquist, Will Hochman, Beth Kolko, Emily Golson, Jonathan Alexander, Luann Barnes, and Kate Kiefer: "Hypertext Reflections: Exploring the Rhetoric, Poetic, and Pragmatics of Hypertext"

1998 Finalists

Doug Brent for "Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy"

Sandye Thompson's "Speaking of the MOOn: Textual Realities and the Body Electric."

1999-2000

The 1999-2000 Kairos Best Webtext Awards were presented at the 2000 Computers and Writing Conference, Fort Worth, Texas.

1999-2000 Winners

Jane Love: "MOO-Scream on its wayves to WOOmb SCREAMS"

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Victor J. Vitanza: "CompoZing com_PLI_cating Processes"

1999-2000 Finalists

John Barber and Dene Grigar, with Hugh Burns: "Computers and Writing 2000"

Mark Dennard: "Neglected Pockets"

2000-2001

The 2000-2001 Kairos Best Webtext Awards were presented at the 2001 Computers and Writing Conference in Muncie, Indiana.

2000-2001 Winner

Jeff White: "Hypersuasion and the New Ethos: Toward a Theory of Ethical Linking"

2000-2001 Finalist

Mike Palmqust and Luann Barnes: The Online Writing Center Consortium

2001-2002

The 2001-2002 Kairos Best Webtext Awards were presented at the 2002 Computers and Writing Conference in Normal, Illinois.

2001-2002 Winner

Joyce Walker: "Textural Textuality"

2001-2002 Finalists

Collin Brooke: "Perspective"

Michael Salvo: "Deafened to Their Demands"

2002-2003

The 2002-2003 Kairos Best Webtext Awards were presented at the 2003 Computers and Writing Conference in West Lafayette, Indiana.

2002-2003 Winner

Anne Wysocki: "A Bookling Monument"

2002-2003 Finalists

Michael J. Cripps: "Between Linear and Nonlinear: The Research Essay as Hypertext"

Lisa Gye: "Half Lives"

2003-2004

The 2003-2004 Kairos Best Webtext and Best Academic Weblog Awards were presented at the 2004 Computers and Writing Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

2003-2004 Winner

Adrian Miles (Ed.): "Violence of Text: An Online Academic Publishing Exercise"

2003-2004 Finalists

Daniel Anderson: "Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition: Consumption and Production in Continuum"

Charles Lowe: "Copyright, Access, and Digital Texts"

2004 Best Academic Weblog Winner

Jenny Edbauer: "Stupid Undergrounds: I Found It on the Street"

2004-2005

The 2004-2005 Kairos Best Webtext and Best Academic Weblog Awards were presented at the 2005 Computers and Writing Conference in Palo Alto, California.

2004-2005 Winner

Michael J. Cripps: "#FFFFFF, #000000,   #808080: Hypertext Theory and WebDev in the Composition Classroom"

2004-2005 Finalists

Meredith W. Zoetewey: "Disrupting the Computer Lab(oratory): Names,Metaphors, and the Wireless Writing Classroom"

Brian Houle, Alex Kimball, and Heidi McKee: "Boy? You Decide Girl? You Decide: Multimodal Web Composition and a Mythography of Identity"

2005 Best Academic Weblog Winner

Collin Brooke: "Collin vs. Blog"

2005-2006

The 2005-2006 Kairos Best Webtext and Best Academic Weblog Awards were presented at the 2006 Computers and Writing Conference in Lubbock, Texas.

2005-2006 Winner

Madeleine Sorapure: "Between Modes: Assessing Student New Media Compositions"

2005-2006 Finalist

The WIDE Research Center Collective: "Why Teach Digital Writing?"

2006 Best Academic Weblog Winner

Clancy Ratliff: "CultureCat: Rhetoric and Feminism"

2006-2007

The 2006-2007 Kairos Best Webtext and Best Academic Weblog Awards were presented at the 2007 Computers and Writing Conference in Detroit, Michigan.

2006-2007 Winner

Michael Salvo and Thomas Rickert: "...And They Had ProTools"

2006-2007 Finalist

Kristin L. Arola and Cheryl Ball: "From 'They Call Me Doctor?' to Tenure"

2007 Best Academic Weblog Winner

Elizabeth Losh: "VirtualPolitik"