Institutional Ethnography A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers / Michelle LaFrance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaFrance, Michelle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Sociological aspects.

Universities and colleges.

Writing centers--Sociological aspects.

Writing centers.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Research--Methodology.

Academic writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Research--Methodology.

English language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Reclaims ethnography as a rigorous writing studies research practice, particularly how "work" (a concept defined generously) is co-constituted within writing. The study of work and work processes reveals how institutional discourse, social relations, and norms of professional practice coordinate what people do across time"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : twenty-first-century exigencies : materialist methods for writing studies researchers

Institutional ethnography : a theory of practice for writing studies researchers

How work takes shape : tracing the work of a "shared assignment" in a linked gateway

The annual review as "boss text" and the coordination of writing center work : uncovering disjunctions between local and national discourse

Mapping information literacy in a first-year English program : social relations, material conditions, and how things happen

Conclusion : relations are us : looking up, studying up, standing up notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607328674

1607328674

OCLC:

1112094335