Smagorinsky – The Method Section as Conceptual Epicenter in Constructing Social Science Reports

Citation: Smagorinsky, Peter.  “The Method Section as Conceptual Epicenter in Constructing Social Science Reports.”  Written Communication 25.3 (2008): 389 – 411.  Print. Abstract: In this article, the author argues that Method sections in social science research reports, particularly those that employ qualitative methods, often lack sufficient detail to make any results that follow from the analytic method trustworthy. The author provides... Read More

Gries – Practicing Methods in Ancient Cultural Rhetorics: Uncovering Rhetorical Action in Moche Burial Rituals

Laurie Gries – “Practicing Methods in Ancient Cultural Rhetorics: Uncovering Rhetorical Action in Moche Burial Rituals” in Rhetorics of the Americas 3114 BCE to 2012 CE G. claims that studying cultures on their own terms is the future of ancient non-Western rhetorical historiography.  In this piece she will demonstrate what that looks like. The use of symbols inscribed on material artifiacts will be the main means of meeting Pre-Columbian... Read More

CCR760 – Miller – Genre as Social Action

Miller, Carolyn R. “Genre as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 2 (1984): 151-67. Print. Miller isn’t content with the definition of genre as 1) similarity in strategies or forms in discourse; 2) similarities in audience; 3) similarities in modes of thinking; and 4) similarities in rhetorical situations (151). Working from Korhrs Campbell and Jamieson, Miller contends that the study of genre is useful not because it creates... Read More