Research

Grants for Faculty Research

Research on Writing and Composition in 21st Century Contexts

Current Due Date: Friday, April 20, 2009 (5:00 pm)
This research initiative will award $3000-5000 grants and is intended to encourage the study of writing and composition, broadly defined. This spring the CSTW Research Review Board will award four research grants. Successful research projects will address issues and contexts (both digital and non-digital) that characterize writing and composition in the 21st century. Topics might include but are not limited to the following:

Suggested Research Topics

• writing technologies or online systems that are influencing literacy practices
• writing and composition instruction (P-12 and in post-secondary education)
• writing centers, programs, and curricular support initiatives
• digital media and multimodal composition
• writing and composition in professional settings
• digital writing and its relationship to changing literacy practices: reading, gathering and evaluating resources, collaboration, informal and formal presentations, publishing, etc.
• writing and composition in the disciplines
• self-sponsored writing in digital and non-digital environments (all ages).
• integrating instructional technologies into courses.
• writing and composition as it intersects with race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and the literate contexts of other under-represented populations
• writing and composition as a component of civic engagement
• writing and composition and the nature of intellectual property

Eligible Researchers
Qualified researchers (faculty, staff, and graduate students) from all campuses of The Ohio State University are encouraged to apply. Researchers outside the university with CSTW sponsors are also welcome to submit proposals. Priority will be given to those researchers with on-going relationships to CSTW.

Proposal Requirements

• A complete research proposal must be submitted to the Selection Board by April 20, 2009. The board will respond to proposals within approximately one month.
  • Abstract (100 words)
  • Description (500 words)
  • Objectives (100)
  • Literature review (250)
  • Works cited (MLA) (250)
  • Project Timeline
  • Budget Narrative (Please detail the expenses you anticipate and how they are related to the research you will be conducting.) Indicate which departmental administrator you have approached about support for commonly used items: photocopying, printing, travel, reference materials, etc
  • Up to 24 months to complete research projects (extensions available).
  • College presentation of findings and research report within three months of completion.
  • The status of IRB approval for all human subject research should be noted in the research timeline.

Logistics for research projects:

• Initial awards of up to $4500 (based on budget narrative)
• Final $500 awards upon completion of OSU presentation (coordinated with CSTW staff), the return of non-expendable grant purchases, and the filing of a final research report.
• Priority is given to requests that are integral to the conducting of the research and not easily covered by normal department support.
• We encourage CSTW funding to be used as seed money for larger grant projects.
• All grant-funded purchases (including the pay for undergraduate and graduate research assistants) will be handled through CSTW staff and owned by OSU. Non-expendable purchases should be returned to the CSTW upon completion of the research project. Food, restaurant, and event-related expenses must be pre-planned with CSTW staff.
  • All course-release requests must be accompanied by a letter from the department chair supporting the request.
  • Graduate Associate pay must be pre-planned with an appropriate departmental representative. A short letter of support should accompany the project proposal.
  • Awards are not meant to buy out teaching time for the principal investigator.
  • All publications that result from sponsored research should acknowledge the support provided by the CSTW grant initiative and the College of Humanities.

Submission & Review Process:
All submissions should be digital in nature. Normally we accept proposals as email attachment(s) to Dickie Selfe and Judy Kauffeld. If you would like to send a paper copy as a back up (only), please send it to:

The CSTW Research Review Board consists of junior and senior staff and faculty familiar with research in this area. They will conduct a blind review of all proposals. If Review Board members have helped develop research proposals or are directly involved in research being proposed, they will recuse themselves from that round of the research review process.

CSTW Research Grants (as of 1/13/08)
Joel Bloch, School of Teaching and Learning, "Intellectual Property, Plagiarism, and the International Student"

Vicki Daiello, Art Education, "The I of the Text: Visualizing the Subject Within Television Criticism Writing in Art Education"

Mari Haneda, Language, Literacy and Culture, "Apprenticing academic writers at the doctoral level: A case study of Chinese international students"

Kathleen A. Houchens & Janice L. Macian, Spanish and Portuguese, "OSU SPPO Teaching Learning Centers (TLC) Assessment"

Michelle Kearns, Kiplinger Fellow, "Writing with voice, color and style: How the short, engaging literary style emerging from the online world can teach journalists to write"

Valerie Kinloch, School of Teaching and Learning, "The Politics of Writing, Place, and Youth Digital Discourses"

Karen Newman, Language, Literacy and Culture, "Nonnative English Speaking Teachers (NNESTs) and Peer-Mediated Writing Practices in the 21st Century"

Ryan Omizo, English, "Camming Composition: Capturing Multimotivations in Student Digital Composing"

Ryan Rish, School of Teaching and Learning, "StoryChat: Community Conversations in Computer-Mediated Discourse"

Julia Voss, English, "Public Libraries and the Digital Divide in 2008: A Case Study of Columbus, Ohio's Northside Library Branch"

George Newell, David Bloome, & Alan Hirvel, School of Teaching and Learning, "Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing in Two High School English Language Arts Classrooms"

Louie Ulman & Cynthia Selfe, English, "Research on Faculty Instructional Goals and Needs for Using the DALN"

Beverly Moss, English, "African-American Women, Literacy and Community Service"

Candace Stout, Art Education, "Mentoring Writing in the Qualitative Dissertation Genre: Paired Perspectives of Mentors and Their Students"

Requests for Funding:

• Researcher Stipend: additional pay
• Research Assistant (OSU staff, student, GRAs)
• Course Release for researcher (Grad. S or Lecturer or Faculty)
• Salary support (non-OSU visiting researcher)
• Travel to present (room, per diem, registration, air/car)
• Travel to research site
• Research participant stipends
• Equipment and materials: software, hardware, media
• Consultant fee for training on research equipment/software
• Consulting with development of survey
• Photocopying / Digitizing / Printing
• Reference books and Textbooks
• Transcription / Coding
• Web-based Survey Engine
• OSU course to prepare for research
• Non-OSU course to prepare for research