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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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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