Writing Studies Research in Practice Methods and Methodologies

Name: Writing Studies Research in Practice Methods and Methodologies
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ISBN: 9780809331147

ISBN-10: 0809331144

ISBN-13: 9780809331147

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lee Nickoson, Mary P. Sheridan, Gesa E. Kirsch

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An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research.What does it mean to research writing today? What are the practical and theoretical issues researchers face when approaching writing as they do? What are the gains or limitations of applying particular methods, and what might researchers be overlooking? These questions and more are answered by the writing research field’s leading scholars inWriting Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies.Editors Nickoson and Sheridan gather twenty chapters from leaders in writing research, spanning topics from ethical considerations for researchers, quantitative methods, and activity…

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 8/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Steve Early has been an organizer, strike strategist, labor educator, and lawyer. He recently retired from his job as national staff member of the Communications Workers of America. Early's articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces have appeared in "The Nation", "New Politics", "CounterPunch", "The Progressive", "American Prospect", "Working USA", "New Labor Forum", "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", "Los Angeles Times", "Boston Globe", and many other publications. He is currently completing a book on the role of 1960s activists in American unions.



Foreword: New Methodological Challenges for Writing Studies Researchers



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Current Conversations on Writing Research




Reimagining Traditional Research Practices



Narrative Turns in Writing Studies Research




Reseeing and Redoing: Making Historical Research at the Turn of the Millennium




Exceeding the Bounds of the Interview: Feminism, Mediation, Narrative, and Conversations about Digital Literacy




Analytic Strategies, Competent Inquiries, and Methodological Tensions in the Study of Writing




A Complicated Geometry: Triangulating Feminism, Activism, and Technological Literacy




Making Ethnography Our Own: Why and How Writing Studies Must Redefine Core Research Practices




Reclaiming the Mind: Eco-Cognitive Research in Writing Studies




Revisioning Research in Composition



Revisiting Teacher Research




Autoethnography in the Study of Multilingual Writers




Racial Methodologies for Composition Studies: Reflecting on Theories of Race in Writing Assessment Research




Writing Program Research: Three Analytic Axes




Institutional Critique in Composition Studies: Methodological and Ethical Considerations for Researchers




Longitudinal Writing Research in (and for) the Twenty-First Century




Reconceptualizing Methodologies and Sites of Inquiry



Quantitative Methods in Composition Studies: An Introduction to Their Functionality




Strategies and Passions in Empirical Qualitative Research




Community-Based Research and the Importance of a Research Stance




Conducting Writing Research Internationally




The Role of Activity Analysis in Writing Research: Case Studies of Emerging Scholarly Communities




The Ethics of Conducting Writing Research on the Internet: How Heuristics Help



After Words: Postmethodological Musing



List of Contributors


Index