Canagarajah – Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching
Canagarajah, Suresh. Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching. Oxford Applied Linguistics;. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print. This publication comes out of a series dedicated to language educators’ stories of their L2 literacy experiences. This work is an in-depth case study of the everyday language engagements both inside and outside the classroom of a community of Tamils living in a post-colonial context. On method: ... Read More
Abbott – Methods of Discovery – Chapters 1 & 2
Abbott – Methods of Discovery – Chapter 1 Chapter 1: Explanation A. begins by noting that traditional social science is much like a monologue . . . it is patterned and consistent.1 A. notes that this work is a heuristic. . . a book “of aids to the social scientific imagination” (4). A. also notes that explanation is the purpose of social science (again, Latourian inferences). This perspective on social science method requires... Read More
Gurak & Silker – Technical Communication Research in Cyberspace
Gurak, Laura J., and Christine M. Silker. “Technical Communication Research in Cyberspace.” Research in Technical Communication. Eds. Gurak, Laura J. and Mary M. Lay. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 229-48. Print. G/S highlight that traditional research methodologies don’t have a lot to say about research of electronic environments. Issues such as corpa selection, participant consent, and tensions b/n private and public (or the collapse... Read More
Doheny-Farina – Research as Rhetoric: Confronting the Methodological Problems of Research on Writing in Nonacademic Settings
Doheny-Farina, Stephen. “Research as Rhetoric: Confronting the Methodological Problems of Research on Writing in Nonacademic Settings.” Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives. Ed. Spilka, Rachel. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. 253-67. Print. D. notes early on in this piece that Writing Studies is moving progressively toward a Social Science research perspective. This research paradigm values qualitative... Read More
Breuch, Olson & Frantz – Considering Ethical Issues in TC Research
Breuch, Lee-Ann Kastman, Andrea M. Olson, and Andrea Breemer Frantz. “Considering Ethical Issues in Technical Communication Research.” Research in Technical Communication. Eds. Gurak, Laura J. and Mary M. Lay. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 1-22. Print. The authors begin by noting that without a reflexive approach to our research practices and methods we TC’ers can’t hope to produce ethical research. So, while the authors... Read More
