Lillis – Ethnography as Method, Methodology, and ‘Deep Theorizing’

Citation: Lillis, Theresa. “Ethonography as Method, Methodology, and ‘Deep Theorizing’: Closing the Gap Between Text and Context in Academic Writing Research”  Written Communication 25.3 (2008): 353-388. Print. Abstract: This article critically explores the value of ethnography for enhancing context sensitive approaches to the study of academic writing. Drawing on data from two longitudinal studies, student writing in the United Kingdom and... Read More

CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Salazar

Salazar, C.  A Third World Women’s Text:  Between the Politics of Criticism and Cultural Politics.  In S.B. Gluck and D. Patai, editors, Women’s Word:  The Feminist Practice of Oral History.  Routledge, NY and London, 1991 The author contends that women’s autobiography has become a central part of the “intellectual, political, and even armed resistance” waged by oppressed people against dominant or hegemonic groups (93). The author... Read More

CCR691 – Ethnography Readings

From Methods and Methodology in Composition Research Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan Chapter 7 : Ethnography and Composition:  Studying Language at Home This chapter provides a great how-to for ethnography.  Highlights: Ethnography works in situations where the researcher has epistemic privilege Ethnographers tend to focus on the daily routines in the everyday lives of the communities being studied. 3 modes of ethnography: Comprehensive-oriented: ... Read More

CCR691 – Ethnography Ch. 2 Horner – For Comment

Horner, Bruce. “Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work:  Rearticulating Labor.” Ethnography Unbound:  From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis. Ed. Stephen Gilbert Brown. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. 13-34. Main Claims/Executive Summary In this chapter Horner advances the argument that critical ethnography’s approach to collaboration, multivocality, and self-reflexivity have been steps in the right direction to distance ethnography from... Read More