Methods and Methodology in Composition Research
by Kirsch, Gesa; Sullivan, Patricia A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-06-03
Publisher(s): Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Summary
In original essays, fourteen nationally known scholars examine the practical, philosophical, and epistemological implications of a variety of research traditions. Included are discussions of historical, theoretical, and feminist scholarship; case-study and ethnographic research; text and conversation analysis; and cognitive, experimental, and descriptive research. Issues that cross methodological boundaries, such as the nature of collaborative research and writing, methodological pluralism, the classification and coding of research data, and the politics of composition research, are also examined. Contributors reflect on their own research practices, and so reflect the current state of composition research itself.
Author Biography
Gesa Kirsch is assistant professor of English at Wayne State University. She is coeditor of A Sense of Audience in Written Communication.
Patricia A. Sullivan is assistant professor of English and associate director of composition at the University of New Hampshire.
Patricia A. Sullivan is assistant professor of English and associate director of composition at the University of New Hampshire.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Research Methods and Methodology | |
| Dreams and Play: Historical Method and Methodology | p. 15 |
| Feminism and Methodology in Composition Studies | p. 37 |
| Writing Theory : : Theory Writing | p. 62 |
| Context-Sensitive Text Analysis | p. 84 |
| Analyzing Talk about Writing | p. 105 |
| The Narrative Roots of the Case Study | p. 130 |
| Ethnography and Composition: Studying Language at Home | p. 153 |
| Composition from the Teacher-Research Point of View | p. 172 |
| Connecting Cognition and Context in Composition | p. 190 |
| Experimental and Descriptive Research Methods in Composition | p. 217 |
| Research Problems and Issues | |
| Methodological Pluralism: Epistemological Issues | p. 247 |
| Coding Data: Issues of Validity, Reliability, and Interpretation | p. 270 |
| Collaborative Scholarship in Composition: Some Issues | p. 287 |
| Methods, Methodologies, and the Politics of Knowledge: Reflections and Speculations | p. 314 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 333 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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