That college research paper you've been sweating over may not seem like a page-turner, but it could be just what a publisher of undergraduate and graduate research is looking for. You could end up a first-time author like RIC student Samantha Gowdey. • She took a rhetoric class in which she had to choose a notable figure and spend the semester researching and writing a paper centered on that figure's rhetoric. Gowdey chose Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. • With the urging of Professor Michael Michaud, Gowdey submitted her 'A' paper to a journal called Xchanges – an interdisciplinary, online publication based in the English Department of the University of New Mexico – and it was accepted, pending revisions. "When I got my paper back, I never saw so much red in my life," she says. "I spent months going back-and-forth with the editors, making corrections. It was stressful and discouraging, at times. Ultimately, the edits improved the paper....