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Autore |
Johanek Cindy <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Composing research : a contextualist paradigm for rhetoric and composition / / Cindy Johanek |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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9786613266798 |
9781283266796 |
1283266792 |
9780874213225 |
0874213223 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Research |
English language - Composition and exercises - Research |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 COMPOSITION RESEARCH Issues in Context; 2 RESEARCH IN COMPOSITION Current Issues and A Brief History; 3 NUMBERS, NARRATIVES, AND HE VS. SHE Issues of Audience in Composition Research; 4 FROM EPISTEMOLOGY TO EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION Toward a Contextualist Research Paradigm; 5 A CONTEXTUALIST RESEARCH PARADIGM An Illustration; 6 A CONTEXTUALIST RESEARCH PARADIGM A Demonstration; 7 PREDICTOR VARIABLES The Future of Composition Research; 8 CONCLUSIONS (AND BEGINNINGS); REFERENCES for Eileen Oliver's "Writing Quality, etc."; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Cindy Johanek offers a new perspective on the ideological conflict between qualitative and quantitative research approaches, and the theories of knowledge that inform them. With a paradigm that is sensitive to the context of one's research questions, she argues, scholars can develop less dichotomous forms that invoke the strengths of both research traditions. Context-oriented approaches can lift the |
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