Composing research a contextualist paradigm for rhetoric and composition

In Composing Research, 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johanek, Cindy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah Utah State University Press ©2000©2000, 2000
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Composition research : issues in context
  • Research in composition : current issues and a brief history
  • Numbers, narratives, and He vs. She : issues of audience in composition research
  • From epistemology to epistemic justification : toward a contextualist research paradigm
  • A contextualist research paradigm : an illustration (including reprint of :Writing Quality of Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Graders, and college Freshman," by Eileen I. Oliver)
  • A contextualist research paradigm : a demonstration
  • Predictor variables : the future of composition research
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index