Expository Writing Award - Application Process

The INFORMS Expository Writing Award honors an operations researcher/management scientist whose publications demonstrate a consistently high standard of expository writing.

This award recognizes an author whose publications in operations research and management science have set an exemplary standard of exposition. The awardee's written work, published over a period of at least ten years, should indicate (in terms of breadth of readership) an influence and accessibility enhanced by expository excellence. Criteria include the lucidity, conciseness, logic and interest of the writing at all levels, from the general organization to the details. The author must have affected, through these publications, how something is done, studied, taught, or thought about by some group within the OR/MS community.

The written work can contain any combination of practical, theoretical and pedagogical subject matter, and may be original, synthetic or historical. The corpus as a whole must be substantial in content, not necessarily prize-worthy in itself, but not trivial.

The publications in question can be books or papers in any combination, although enough of them must have been singly authored to demonstrate the awardee's expository skill. A team of authors writing together consistently over many years may also be considered for the award.

The winner will receive $2,000 and a framed certificate that includes a brief citation at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Nominations should include references to examples of the nominee's expository writing, as well as evidence of the influence these works have had on the OR/MS profession. Nominations must be sent by August 15, 2012 to:

2012 Committee Chair:

Richard Steinberg
London School of Economics
Department of Management, NAB 3.08
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
e-mail: r.j.steinberg@lse.ac.uk