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
Haswell – NCTE/CCCC’s Recent War on Scholarship
Citation: Haswell, Richard H. “NCTE/CCCC’s Recent War on Scholarship.” Written Communication 22.2 (2005): 198-223. Print. Abstract: This article documents aspects of the history of support for scholarship by two professional organizations involved with teaching composition at the postsecondary level: the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Evidence is found that... Read More
Bazerman – Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice
Citation: Bazerman, Charles. “Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice.” Written Communication 25.3 (2008): 298-318. Abstract: Recent historical examinations of nonliterary, nontheoretical texts within their activity settings have aimed to identify the historically developed communicative and rhetorical resources currently available to writers and to reveal the dynamics of the formation, use, and evolution of... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Lather
Lather, Patti. “Research as Praxis.” Harvard Education Review 56 (1986): 257-77. The primary goal of this essay is to involve researchers in the democratized process of research that emphasizes negotiation, reciprocity, and empowerment in the interest of the researched subjects – something of a Frierian emancipatory research as practice. The writer draws on feminist, neo-Marxist critical ethnography, and Frierian participatory research to create... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Kirsch and Mortensen
Kirsch, Gesa E., and Peter Mortensen. “Toward an Ethics of Research.” Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research: The Politics of Location, Interpretation, and Publication. Ed. Gesa E. Kirsch. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. 87-103. The authors aim is to “map out significant problems and opportunities that await researchers who want their inquiries to be a resource for individual and group expressions of self-determination” (87). The... Read More
