Description

The CCCC Research Initiative, administered by the Conference on College Composition and Communication within the National Council of Teachers of English, supports bold, creative research advancing broad and evolving understandings of literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing. Its scope includes multimodal discourse, digital communication, and diverse language practices. The initiative promotes intellectual and pedagogical freedom, ethical scholarship, community empowerment, and research that informs public policy conversations.

Projects investigate challenges facing instructors and administrators in classrooms and programs. Interests include social, racial, and linguistic justice; writing across organizations, communities, and cultures; transfer of writing ability; disciplinary development and mentoring; historiography; writing assessment; writer development; and working conditions for writing instruction. Historical, archival, rhetorical, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, and textual approaches are welcomed. Funded work connects scholarship with public engagement through products for researchers and teachers and a specifically identified public audience.