Description

The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Initiative funds bold, creative research projects that advance the organization's mission to broaden and evolve definitions of literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing. The initiative encourages research that generates new knowledge about language, literacy, communication, and the teaching, assessment, and technologies of writing—especially at the postsecondary level and beyond. Projects should aim for both scholarly and public impact, producing outputs for academic audiences as well as more public-facing genres (e.g., op-eds, blog posts, podcasts).

Research topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Language, literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing at the postsecondary level and beyond
• Social, racial, and linguistic justice in writing instruction
• Writing in organizations, communities, and cultures
• Transfer of writing ability across contexts
• Assessment of writing and literacy
• Development of writers or writing abilities
• Working conditions for writing instruction

CCCC welcomes a broad range of methodologies, including historical, archival, rhetorical, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, and textual approaches. Proposals should clearly articulate research questions, significance, methods, and intended scholarly and public audiences.