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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480597203321

Titolo

Speaking about writing : reflections on research methodology / / edited by Peter Smagorinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Sage Publications, , [1994]

©1994

ISBN

1-4522-5486-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Sage series in written communication ; ; volume 8

Disciplina

302.2/244

Soggetti

Rhetoric

Written communication

Report writing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Potential Problems and Problematic Potentials of Using Talk About Writing as Data About Writing Process; Part I - Think-Aloud Protocol Analysis; Chapter 1 - Think-Aloud Protocol Analysis: Beyond the Black Box; Chapter 2 - Think-Aloud Protocols, Protocol Analysis, and Research Design: An Exploration of the Influence of Writing Tasks on Writing Processes; Chapter 3 - Substance and Romance in Analyzing Think-Aloud Protocols; Chapter 4 - Reactivity in Concurrent Think-Aloud Protocols: Issues for Research

Part II - Retrospective Accounts of Writing ProcessChapter 5 - ""Once Upon a Time"": The Use of Retrospective Accounts in Building Theory in Composition; Chapter 6 - Using Intervention Protocols to Study the Effects of lnstructional Scaffolding on Writing and Learning; Chapter 7 - Stimulated Recall in Research on Writing: An Antidote to ""I Don't Know, It Was Fine""; Part III - Analysis of Collaborative Discourse; Chapter 8 - Interpreting and Counting: Objectivity in Discourse Analysis; Chapter 9 - Discourse Analysis of Teacher-Student Writing Conferences: Finding the Message in the Medium

Chapter 10 - What's All This Talk I Hear?: Using Sociolinguistic Analysis



to Locate and Map Themes in Teacher/Student Talk about WritingPart IV - Interviews in the Field; Chapter 11 - Ethnographic Interviews and Writing Research: A Critical Examination of the Methodology; Part V - Counterpoint; Chapter 12 - Whither Wisdom?; Chapter 13 - Withered Wisdom: A Reply to Dobrin; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume makes a powerful case for the analysis of the spoken word as a source of data to study writing. The contributors focus on issues involved in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. Their approaches go beyond simple quantitative//qualitative differences, examining the very underpinnings of the various assumptions of distinct methodologies. Divided into four major areas of inquiry, the book looks at different aspects of conducting think-aloud protocol analysis, retrospective accounts, discourse analysis and interviews in the field.