03039nam 2200601 a 450 991021382790332120200520144314.01-283-26679-297866132667980-87421-322-3(CKB)111056486848392(EBL)287116(OCoLC)476039829(SSID)ssj0000127377(PQKBManifestationID)11159611(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000127377(PQKBWorkID)10051718(PQKB)10968273(MiAaPQ)EBC3442751(OCoLC)51977925(MdBmJHUP)muse16335(MiAaPQ)EBC287116(Au-PeEL)EBL287116(EXLCZ)9911105648684839220091125d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComposing research a contextualist paradigm for rhetoric and composition /Cindy JohanekLogan, Utah Utah State University Press20001 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87421-292-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index.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; INDEXABOUT THE AUTHORCindy 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 narrative from beneath the numbers in an experimental study, for example, or bring the useful clarity of numbers to an ethnographic study. A pragmatic scholar, Johanek moves easilyEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teachingResearchEnglish languageComposition and exercisesResearchEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teachingResearch.English languageComposition and exercisesResearch.808/.042/071808.042071Johanek Cindy1964-1024788MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910213827903321Composing Research2435866UNINA