Geisler – Selections from Analyzing Streams of Language

Selections from Analyzing Streams of Language Cheryl Geisler From Chapter 3:  Segmenting the Data Summary:  In this chapter, you will segment the data you have selected for analysis into  units appropriate for analysis. After learning about how the units characterize various kinds of verbal data, you will use one or more of these units to select and segment your data. The unit of analysis is the level at which the phenomena of interest occurs. ... Read More

Donahue – Cross-Cultural Analysis of Student Writing: Beyond Discourses of Difference

Citation: Donahue, Tiane.  “Cross-Cultural Analysis of Student Writing: Beyond Discourses of Difference.” Written Communication 25.3 (2008): 319-352.  Print. Abstract: Text analysis traditions in France and the United States include discourse analysis, critical linguistics, French functional linguistics, Bakhtinian dialogics, and “generous reading.” These frames have not been used, however, in crosscultural analysis of university student... Read More

CCR691 – Week Four – Rhetorical Analysis

Richard Leo Enos Rhetoric Review, Vol. 25. No. 4, 357-87 This piece is a collection of reflections by noted rhetoric scholars on the development of rhetorical analysis.  In the general sense, most of the writers situate their understanding of the genesis of the field in terms of the following authors:  Wichelns, Black, Bitzer, and the explosion of authors during the social reclamation efforts of the 80s and 90s.  To move forward, I’ll highlight... Read More