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
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
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Harris
Harris, Joseph. “From the Editor: The Work of Others.” CCC 45 (1994): 439–41. This piece is a meditation on the new editor of CCCs in 1994 on the ethics involved with citation of student work and other forms of writing. There is an explicit directive in this piece that instructors must “get written permission from any student whose work you wish to include in an article for CCC” (440). In other words, this is the first time that a directive... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Frankel & Siang
Mark S. Frankel and Sanyin Siang. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research on the Internet: A Report of a Workshop June 10-11, 1999. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), November, 1999 – www.aaas.org/ssp/dspp/sfrl/projects/intres/report.pdf Internet research has ranged widely from naturalistic observation to surveys. Some difficulties in this sort of research include: anonymity, pseudonym use, informed... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Fluehr
Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. “Informed Consent in Anthropological Research: We are Not Exempt.” Human Organization 53 (1994): 1–10. The article investigates the history of the idea of informed consent and attempts to articulate why anthropology has not incorporated it into their research methods. The idea of “Informed Consent without Forms” is used to show that the “spirit of informed consent can be fulfilled without the intrusive and unnecessarily... Read More
