Ethnographies of academic writing research : theory, methods, and interpretation / edited by Ignacio Guillén-Galve, Ana Bocanegra-Valle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guillén Galve, Ignacio, editor.

Bocanegra Valle, Ana, editor.

Series:

Research methods in applied linguistics ; Volume 1.

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing--Research.

Academic writing.

Academic writing--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. Throughout its six theoretical and practice-oriented studies, together with a foreword and afterword, ethnography-related concepts like thick description, deep theorizing, participatory research, research reflexivity or ethics are discussed against the affordances of ethnography for the study of academic writing. The book is key reading for scholars, researchers and instructors in the areas of applied linguistics, academic writing, academic literacies and genre studies. It will also be useful to those lecturers and postgraduate students working in English for Academic Purposes and disciplinary writing. In contrast to previous literature in the field, this volume provides ethnographically-oriented researchers with clear pointers to shift their main role from observers to storytellers of an inside story"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Foreword

References

Chapter 1. Methodological reflections on and participatory episodes of ethnographic academic writing research

An introduction to ethnography and academic writing research

Key methodological issues in ethnographically-oriented academic writing research

Situating the book in relevant scholarship

Thick description and deep theorizing

Methodological alignment with ethnography

Participatory research and researcher reflexivity

Ethics and trustworthiness

Organisation of the book and chapter summaries

Contribution of the book to current methodological debates

Thick description, thick participation, and deep theorizing

The book in a nutshell

Funding

Chapter 2. What is (and could be) thick description in academic writing research?

Introduction

What is thick description?

What is thick description in academic writing research?

Multiple data sources

Sustained engagement

Emic perspectives

Reflexivity

Interpretation/theorization

What is and what might be thick description in academic writing research?

Chapter 3. Textography: Narrowing the gap between text and context in ethnographic explorations of situated academic writing

Textography origins

Textography characteristics

Texts

Contexts

Practices

Textography as methods

Methods of textual analysis

Methods of ethnographic analysis: Interviews and observations

Textographic methodological approaches

Textography as methodological assumptions

Textography methodology: Deep theorising through text and context.

Textography methodology: Thick description

Thick description through thick participation

Thick description through contextualisation

Thick description through narrativisation

Reflections on textography for academic writing research

Reflections on ethics: Trustworthiness

Ethical reflections: Micro and macro ethics

Textography's possibilities for academic writing research

Chapter 4. Understanding academics online: Ethnographic approaches to the analysis of online academic discourse and practices

Theoretical framework

What is digital ethnography?

Adjustments of pre-digital ethnography to the online environment

Methodology: Selection and analysis of ethnographically-oriented studies

Online academic practices: Ethnographically-oriented studies

Surveys and questionnaires

Interviews

Observation and document analysis

Reflection on one's own writing

Conclusions and implications

Chapter 5. The contribution of ethnographically-oriented approaches to the study of L2 writing and text production processes

Ethnographically-oriented approaches to the study of writing processes and text production processes

Methodological rich point 1: From individual cognition to a socially-situated, "person-centredness" perspective in the study of writing processes

Writing processes and individual cognition

Methodological rich point 1: Socio-cognitive and socio-cultural inquiries into writing processes and strategies

Methodological rich point 2: The study of the time-distributed, collaborative nature of text production processes

Cognitive studies of the temporal distribution of writing processes

The study of the time-distributed nature of text production processes

Concluding remarks

References.

Chapter 6. Walking on thin ice: Reflexivity in doing ethnography

Researcher reflexivity: Degrees and types

Overview of the research project

Reflections on methodological decisions in the research process

Participant recruitment

Conducting and analysing interviews

Text Histories (THs)

Textual representation

Ethics in collaborative ethnography

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Chapter 7. Literacy histories and talk around texts: Emphasising the emic to explore students' perspectives on academic writing

Researching students' academic writing

Writing in higher education

Epistemologies for researching student writing

Methodological procedures and challenges

Methodological integrity

Literacy histories

Talk around texts

What do we gain by voicing students in writing research?

Students are readers and writers

Students desire a voice and a sense of ownership

Final remarks

Afterword: Ethnographies of academic writing research: A story in five scenes

Scene 1: Stories all the way down

Scene 2: What is academic writing?

Scene 3: What is ethnographic?

Scene 4: "Trustworthiness"

Scene 5: Ethnographic ethics and an ethnographic ethic

List of contributors

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1267403690