Welcome to the home of the Upward Project! We are conducting a longitudinal study of undergraduates’ development as writer-researchers at a small, private comprehensive university with a liberal arts mission. We are interested in several facets of student development as they advance through a college curriculum: students’ perceptions of research and sources; how they describe and to what they attribute their own development; and how research interfaces with their writing practices.

This project is funded through a 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Initiative Grant.