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2025–2026 CCCC Emergent Researcher Award Application Form

Please complete the form below in-full to submit your application for the 2025–2026 CCCC Emergent Researcher Award. If applying as a team, only one application should be submitted by the primary researcher. The requested documents should be uploaded in PDF format. Please email cccc@ncte.org with questions. Applications are due by September 1, 2025.

 

  • Proposal Narrative

  • The proposal narrative, in PDF format, should be no more than 5 single-spaced pages (12-point font, 1-inch margins, in PDF format) and address the items from the call for proposals below.
    a. describes how the proposer(s) fulfill(s) the criteria of emergent researcher(s);
    b. defines the project and articulates specific research questions;
    c. explains the significance of the project and identifies the gaps in knowledge it seeks to fill;
    d. situates the project in relevant scholarly conversations about the subject to be studied;
    e. carefully describes the proposed methodology and methods, including potential challenges or limitations;
    f. communicates how and why the research is relevant to writing instructors and/or researchers;
    g. describes the personnel and financial resources needed to complete the project, arguing why they are necessary and relevant; and
    h. describes what the project will add to existing conversations among academic and public audiences and identifies 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. Academic products should be submitted to CCCC or NCTE publications (e.g., CCC, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series) for first review prior to submission to other publications (though receipt does not guarantee acceptance by CCC or Studies in Writing and Rhetoric). In addition to introducing the review committee to your proposed research, your narrative will guide the identification of potential mentors, so the proposal may explicitly address mentoring the emergent researcher hopes to receive, including any questions or concerns you have about the project.
  • Submit a single PDF with the items requested above.
    Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 100 MB.
  • Max. file size: 100 MB.