Composing research : a contextualist paradigm for rhetoric and composition / / Cindy Johanek.

• Author: Johanek, Cindy, 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2000.; ©2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Table of Contents

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

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