CCCC Emergent Researcher Awards Grant

CCCC Emergent Researcher Awards Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Conference on College Composition and Communication
Amount: Up to US $5,000
Last Updated: October 11, 2024

Summary

The CCCC Emergent Researcher Awards support innovative research in language, literacy, communication, and writing at the postsecondary level. These awards prioritize projects that embrace diverse methodologies and perspectives, particularly in areas like social justice and the development of writing abilities. Eligibility is restricted to researchers without prior CCCC funding, and projects may last up to two years. The initiative encourages underrepresented faculty to engage in funded research, promoting inclusivity within the field.

Overview

As teachers and scholars within the discipline and within CCCC undertake increasingly complex research projects, the nature of grant applications submitted to CCCC for research funding has changed. A greater number are submitted each year. But more important, the quality of these applications has improved considerably, and the types of projects for which funding is being sought are more diverse. As an organization, CCCC is committed to supporting the diversity of applicants, projects, and research strategies included in these awards. Particular topics and areas of interest are those that advance the mission and vision of CCCC, which include but are not limited to the following broad areas: 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 contextsDisciplinarity 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 HistoriographyAssessment of writing and literacy Development of writers or writing abilities  Material and working conditions for writing instruction and their influence on teaching and learning We invite proposals for research that employ diverse perspectives and methodologies, including historical, archival, rhetorical, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, and textual.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Only researchers who have not received previous funding from CCCC for research are eligible to apply for these awards.Proposed projects 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. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. The principal investigator(s) must belong to CCCC at the time of proposal submission.

Ineligibility

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 2024, researchers may not apply again until the 2027 award cycle).