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"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 across the boundaries that divide the field, and argues for contextualist theory as a lens through which to view composition research. This approach brings with it a new focus, she writes. ""This new focus will call us to attend to the contexts in which rhetorical issues and research issues converge, producing varied forms, many voices, and new knowledge, indeed reconstructing a discipline that will be simultaneously focused on its tasks, its knowledge-makers, and its students."" Composing Research is a work full of personal voice and professional commitment and will be a welcome addition to the research methods classroom and to the composition researcher's own bookshelf. 2000 Outstanding Scholarship Award from the International Writing Centers Association."

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Author:   Cindy Johanek
Publisher:   Utah State University Press
Imprint:   Utah State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9780874212921

ISBN 10:   0874212928
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 April 2000
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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 (including reprint of ""Writing Quality of Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Graders, and College Freshman,"" by Eileen I. Oliver); 6; A Contextualist Research Paradigm: A Demonstration; 7; Predictor Variables: The Future of Composition Research; 8; Conclusion; References for Oliver Article; Works Cited; Index; About the Author;"

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