Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2017, Revised November 2024
Executive Summary
Undergraduate research is a widely recognized, high-impact educational practice that offers student researchers and their mentors unique opportunities to engage in shared, discipline-based intellectual inquiry. For undergraduate research in writing studies and rhetoric to flourish at two- and four-year institutions, whether it is embedded in curricula or located in co- and extracurricular opportunities, it must be well defined and well supported by relevant campus units (e.g., departments, programs, campus policies) and by the allocation of available campus resources.