Research Initiative for literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing – Sep 1

Posted by Conference on College Composition and Communication on August 6, 2024

Conference on College Composition & Communication invites proposals for research initiative

The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is committed to supporting diverse communicators’ agency, power, and potential inside and outside of postsecondary classrooms.

The CCCC invites proposals for its Research Initiative, which seeks to advance the organization’s mission to advocate for broad and evolving definitions of literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing (including multimodal discourse, digital communication, and diverse language practices) that emphasize the value of these activities to empower individuals and communities.

Through the program, grants of up to $8,000 will be awarded to support proposals to investigate key challenges faced by literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs. The initiative also asks recipients to address the impact their research might have on these conversations, conveying the implications of their work in at least two final products: one that is addressed to a scholarly audience of researchers and teachers in the field and one that is addressed to a specifically identified more public audience.

Proposals may employ diverse perspectives, genres, registers, and methodologies.

Particular topics identified by CCCC include research that produces knowledge about language, literacy, communication, rhetoric, and the teaching, assessment, and technologies of writing at the postsecondary level and beyond; social, racial, and linguistic justice and counterstory as research method and genre in approaches to instruction in rhetoric, language, and literacy; writing in organizations, communities, and/or cultures; transfer of writing ability across contexts; disciplinarity of writing studies and composition, including critical praxis of the discipline’s growth, development of teachers or researchers, and professionalization or mentoring of undergraduate or graduate students joining the discipline; historiography; assessment of writing and literacy; development of writers or writing abilities; and material and working conditions for writing instruction and their influence on teaching and learning.

To be eligible, principal investigators must be members of CCCC at the time of submission.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Conference on College Composition and Communication website.

Deadline: September 1, 2024