Nomination Deadline: July 15
Purpose: The Research Impact Award is presented annually for the empirical research publication in the previous two years that most advances the mission of the organization or the needs of the profession.
Eligibility: A work eligible for the 2025 award will have been published in calendar year 2023 or 2024. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a member of CCCC and/or NCTE at the time of nomination. To nominate a publication for the award, the author, editor, publisher, or reader must be a CCCC and/or NCTE member.
Award Specifics: Nominations must be received by July 15, 2024, and must include a brief statement of the work’s contribution to the profession (Note: You do not need to send copies of the nominated publication with the nomination.). Please send the statement of the publication’s contribution to the CCCC Research Impact Award Committee at cccc@ncte.org.
Research Impact Award Winners
2024 Winner
Laura Gonzales, Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication, Utah State University Press, 2022
2024 Honorable Mention
Jacob Greene, Composing Place: Digital Rhetorics for a Mobile World, Utah State University Press, 2023
2023
Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students
2023 Honorable Mention
Claire Lutkewitte, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Molly J. Scanlon, Stories of Becoming: Demystifying the Professoriate for Graduate Students in Composition and Rhetoric
2022
Huatong Sun, Global Social Media Design: Bridging Differences Across Cultures, Oxford University Press, 2020
2021
Nancy Bou Ayash, Toward Translingual Realities in Composition: (Re)Working Local Language Representations and Practices, Utah State University Press, 2019
Michelle LaFrance, Institutional Ethnography: A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers, Utah State University Press, 2019
2020
Meredith A. Johnson, W. Michele Simmons, and Patricia Sullivan, Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation, Routledge
2019
Derek N. Mueller, Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline, WAC Clearinghouse Press
2018
Xiaoye You, Cosmopolitan English and Transliteracy, Southern Illinois University Press
2017
Jim Ridolfo, Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities, University of Michigan Press
2016
Laurie E. Gries, Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics
2015
Kathleen Blake Yancey, Liane Robertson, and Kara Taczak, Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing
2014
Laura Wilder, Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines
2013
Patrick W. Berry, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe, Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times
2012
Christopher Schroeder, Diverse by Design: Literacy Education in Multicultural Institutions
