Composing research : a contextualist paradigm for rhetoric and composition / / Cindy Johanek
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808/.042/071 |
| 808.042071 | |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Research |
| English language - Composition and exercises - Research | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 easily |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Composing Research |
| ISBN: | 1-283-26679-2 |
| 9786613266798 | |
| 0-87421-322-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910213827903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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