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Points of departure : rethinking student source use and writing studies research methods / edited by Tricia Serviss, Sandra Jamieson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Research.
- English language.
- Academic writing--Study and teaching--Research.
- Academic writing.
- Report writing--Study and teaching--Research.
- Report writing.
- Research--Methodology.
- Research.
- Report writing--Study and teaching.
- Academic writing--Study and teaching.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Points of Departure encourages a return to empirical research about writing, presenting a wealth of transparent, reproducible studies of student sources. The volume shows how to develop methods for coding and characterizing student texts, their choice of source material, and the resources used to teach information literacy. In so doing, the volume advances our understanding of how students actually write. The contributors offer methodologies, techniques, and suggestions for research that move beyond decontextualized guides to grapple with the messiness of research-in-process, as well as design, development, and expansion. Chapters report on research projects at different stages and across institution types-from pilot to multi-site, from community college to research university-focusing on the methods and artifacts employed. This rich mosaic of research about research advances knowledge about student writing and serves as a guide for both new and experienced researchers in writing studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The rise of RAD research methods in writing studies : transcontextual ways forward / Tricia Serviss
- Interchapter : what do we mean by transcontextual RAD research?
- The evolution of the citation project : developing a pilot study from local to translocal / Sandra Jamieson
- Reports from the LILAC project : designing a translocal study / Katt Blackwell-Starnes and Janice R. Walker
- Points of departure : replication and the need to build on and expand local and pilot studies
- Interchapter : what does design-based research offer as a tool for RAD research in writing studies?
- The things they carry : using design-based research in writing teacher education / Tricia Serviss
- Storied research: using focus groups as a responsive method / Crystal Benedicks
- Terms and perceptions : using surveys to discover student beliefs about research / Kristi Murray Costello
- Points of departure : developing design-based local and translocal studies
- Interchapter : what does threshold concept research offer writing studies RAD research?
- Research and rhetorical purpose : using genre analysis to understand use in technical and professional writing / Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch and Brian N. Larson
- Asking the right questions : using interviews to explore information seeking behavior / Whitney Olsen and Anne Diekema
- Just read the assignment : using course documents to analyze research pedagogy / Elizabeth Kleinfeld
- Points of departure : using existing research to think beyond the local
- Afterword. Teaching hybridity in graduate research courses / Rebecca Moore Howard.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607326250
- 1607326256
- Publisher Number:
- 40027812509
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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