# @rhodeislandcollege on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CMkNkg7LD4P
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/74940784-rhodeislandcollege-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-03-18T15:53:26.000+00:00

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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.
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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.
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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."
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Gowdey's paper is titled "Finding a Way to Win Gay in an Evolving Historical Movement" and is featured in the fall 2020, Vol. 15, Issue 2, of Xchanges. "It's nice to think that my paper and my research can now be cited in the papers of future student researchers," she says.
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