The Nell Ann Pickett Award is given each year to the best article published in the ATTW journal. Judges for the award are previous award winners. The award carries a cash prize of $250. It is named for a founding member of the association who initiated the award and originally funded it.

2012: Reeves, C. (2011). "Scientific Visuals, Language, and the Commercialization of a Scientific Idea." Technical Communication Quarterly, 20, 239-273.

2011: Selber, S. (2010). "A Rhetoric of Electronic Instruction Sets." Technical Communication Quarterly, 19, 95-117

2010:  Graham, S. S. (2009). "Agency and the Rhetoric of Medicine: Biomedical Brain Scans and the Ontology of Fibromyalgia", Technical Communication Quarterly, 18: 4, 376 — 404.

2009:  Mirel, B., Barton, E., and Ackerman, A. (Jul-Sep 2008). “Researching Telemedicine: Capturing Complex Clinical Interactions with a Simple Interface Design.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 17:3, 358-378.

2008:. Swarts, J. (2007). “Mobility and Composition: The Architecture of Coherence in Non-places.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 16: 3, 279 — 309.

2006
Sun, Huatong. "The Triumph of Users: Achieving Cultural Usability Goals With User Localization." TCQ 15.4 (Fall 2006): 457-481.

2005
Spinuzzi, Clay. "Lost in the Translation: Shifting claims in the migration of a research technique" TCQ 14.4 (Fall 2005): 411-446.

2004
Rude, Carolyn. "Toward an Expanded Concept of Rhetorical Delivery: The Uses of Reports in Public Policy Debates." TCQ 13.3 (Summer 2004): 271-288.

2003
Baake, Kenneth. "Archaeology Reports: When Context Becomes an Active Agent in the Rhetorical Process" TCQ 12.4 (Fall 2003): 389-403.

2002
Palmer, Jacqueline S., and M. Jimmie Killingsworth. "Research and Consulting in Technical Communication." TCQ 11.4 (Fall 2002): 389-409.

2001
Blakeslee, Ann M. "Bridging the Workplace and the Academy: Teaching Professional Genres through Classroom-Workplace Collaborations" TCQ 10.2 (Spring 2001): 169-192.

2000
Sullivan, Dale L. "Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in Science." TCQ 9.2 (Spring 2000): 125-46.

1999
Kynell, Teresa. "Technical Communication from 1850-1950: Where Have We Been?" TCQ 8.2 (Spring 1999): 143-51.
and
Staples, Katherine. "Technical Communication from 1950-1998: Where Are We Now? TCQ 8.2 (Spring 1999): 153-64.
and
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. "Technical Communication in the 21st Century: Where Are We Going?" TCQ 8.2 (Spring 1999): 165-74.

1998
Jeffrey T. Grabill and W. Michele Simmons. "Toward a Critical Rhetoric of Risk Communication: Producing Citizens and the Role of Technical Communicators." TCQ 7.4 (Fall 1998): 415-441

1997
Durack, Katherine T. "Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication." TCQ 6.3 (Summer 1997): 249-60.

1996
Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. "Relocating the Value of Work: Technical Communication in a Post-Industrial Age." TCQ 5.3 (Summer 1996): 245-70.

1995
Waddell, Craig. "Defining Sustainable Development : A Case Study in Environmental Communication." TCQ 4.2 (Spring 1995): 201-16.

1994
McShea, Daniel. "Evolutionary Trends and the Salience Bias (With Apologies to Oil Tankers, Karl Marx, and Others." TCQ 3.1 (Winter 1994): 21-38.

1993
Bosley, Deborah. "Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Whose Culture Is It Anyway?" TCQ. 2.1 (Winter 1993): 51-62.
and
Thrush, Emily A. "Bridging the Gaps: Technical Communication in an International and Multicultural Society." TCQ 2.3 (Summer 1993): 271-83.

1992
Tebeaux, Elizabeth and M. Jimmie Killingsworth. " Expanding and Redirecting Historical Research in Technical Writing: In Search of Our Past." TCQ 1.2* (Spring 1992): 5-32.

1991
Dragga, Sam. "Responding to Technical Writing." TWT 18.3 (Fall 1991): 202-21.

1990
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie and Preston Lynn Waller. "A Grammar of Person for Technical Writing." TWT 17.1 (Winter 1990): 26-40.

1989
Rentz, Kathryn. "Literary Genre Theory and the Teaching of Professional Writing Forms." TWT 16.3 (Fall 1989): 196-208.

1988
Redish, Janice C. "Reading To Learn To Do." TWT 15.3 (Fall 1988): 223-33. 1988

1987
Coney, Mary B. "Contemporary Views of Audience: A Rhetorical Approach." TWT 14.3 (Fall 1987): 319-36.
and
Corey, Jim and M. Jimmie Killingsworth. "The Internship Report." TWT 14.2 (Spring 1987): 133-41.

1986
Ramey, Judith. "Developing a Theoretical Base for On-line Documentation, Part I: Building the Theory." TWT 13.2 (Spring 1986): 148-59.
and
Ramey, Judith. "Developing a Theoretical Base for On-line Documentation, Part II: Applying the Theory." TWT 13.3 (Fall 1986): 302-15.

1985
Jones, Dan. "A Rhetorical Approach for Teaching the Literature of Scientific and Technical Writing." TWT 12.2 (Fall 1985): 115-125.