CCCC Research Initiative
We call for 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 clearly 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.
This year’s research topics focus on persistent gaps in our research as we seek evidence to support new and revised position statements related to these issues, particularly evidence that can be made available to and inform public stakeholders outside of academic audiences:
Understanding the implications of class size
Grading diverse learners in classrooms that enact students’ right to their own languages
Assessing students’ transfer of writing knowledge from dual-credit programs
Working with diverse learners in writing and communication programs (e.g., neurodiversity, linguistic diversity, economic diversity, sociocultural diversity)
Centering writing and communication research in two-year colleges
Developing and engaging literacy in diverse contexts (e.g., K–12 classrooms, workplaces, churches, bars, prisons, sporting events, courts) and navigating the relationship between these contexts
Up to 2 years
Upper $10,000USD
Proposals are expected to last up to two years but can run for shorter periods of time.
Researchers may submit only one research proposal per award cycle for either the CCCC Research Initiative or the CCCC Emergent Researcher Award—researchers cannot submit to both. Additionally, CCCC research grant recipients may not apply for CCCC research funding in the three years following the initial grant year (e.g., if the initial funding term begins in 2022, researchers may not apply again until the 2025 award cycle).
The principal investigators of each proposal must be members of CCCC at the time of proposal submission.
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