English Student Research

<p><em>Community Engaged Research in First Year Composition</em> is a digital collection composed and curated by students, teachers, and librarians affiliated with first-year composition classes at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The collection was created in 2018, and grows every year as writers and researchers contribute new projects. Pieces selected for publication in this collection have gone through a review process and are intended to connect readers with other resources for their own research and writing.</p><p>The creators of these projects have thought deeply and critically about the meaning of "community" and what it means to engage in research in order to benefit a community. They have studied the ways in which information is disseminated, discovered the challenges and rewards of conducting research in the digital age, and learned to see research as a thoroughly rhetorical endeavor. Ultimately, we hope that <em>Community Engaged Research in First Year Composition</em> can further efforts to connect university resources with community expertise to work toward social justice and a better future for all communities, especially the communities of and around Milwaukee.</p>