Composing research : : a contextualist paradigm for rhetoric and composition / / Cindy Johanek.
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 dichot...
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| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283266792 9786613266798 0874213223 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Cindy Johanek. |