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title	:	Methods and Methodology in Composition Research
author	:	Kirsch, Gesa.; Sullivan, Patricia A.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809317265
print isbn13	:	9780809317264
ebook isbn13	:	9780585162416
language	:	English
subject	English language--Composition and exercises--Research--Methodology, English language--Rhetoric--Research--Methodology.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	PE1404.M47 1992eb
ddc	:	808/.042/072
subject	:	English language--Composition and exercises--Research--Methodology, English language--Rhetoric--Research--Methodology.

Page iii Methods and Methodology in Composition Research Edited by Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville

Page iv Copyright 1992 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Mara Lou Hawse Design and production by Natalia Nadraga 96 95 94 93 92 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Methods and methodology in composition research / edited by Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English languageComposition and exercises ResearchMethodology. 2. English language RhetoricResearchMethodology. I. Kirsch, Gesa. 1961- II. Sullivan, Patricia A., 1956 PE1404.M47 1992 91-20141 808.042072dc20 CIP ISBN 0-8093-1726-5ISBN 0-8093-1727-3 (pbk.) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan 1 Part I. Research Methods and Methodology 1. Dreams and Play: Historical Method and Methodology Robert J. Connors 15 2. Feminism and Methodology in Composition Studies Patricia A. Sullivan 37 3. Writing Theory : : Theory Writing Susan Miller 62 4. Context-Sensitive Text Analysis Thomas N. Huckin 84 5. Analyzing Talk about Writing Peter L. Mortensen 105 6. The Narrative Roots of the Case Study Thomas Newkirk 130 7. Ethnography and Composition: Studying Language at Home Beverly J. Moss 153

Page vi 8. Composition from the Teacher-Research Point of View Ruth Ray 172 9. Connecting Cognition and Context in Composition Karen A. Schriver 190 10. Experimental and Descriptive Research Methods in Composition Richard Beach 217 Part II. Research Problems and Issues 11. Methodological Pluralism: Epistemological Issues Gesa Kirsch 247 12. Coding Data: Issues of Validity, Reliability, and Interpretation Keith Grant-Davie 270 13. Collaborative Scholarship in Composition: Some Issues Duane H. Roen and Robert K. Mittan 287 14. Methods, Methodologies, and the Politics of Knowledge: Reflections and Speculations Lisa Ede 314 Notes on Contributors 333 Index 339

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to acknowledge all the people who helped make this book possible. Our thanks go to all the authors who wrote and rewrote the chapters and who responded with kindness and patience to our editorial suggestions and deadlines. We are grateful for the support and suggestions from Kenney Withers; working with him on this project has been a true delight. We would also like to express thanks to our home institutionsthe University of New Hampshire and Wayne State Universitywhose support made the many phone calls and numerous correspondences between authors, editors, and publisher possible. Special thanks go to close personal friendsMark Weritz and Anthony Schreiner.

Page 1 INTRODUCTION Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan "Research," Roland Barthes writes, is the name we give to "the activity of writing:... whatever it searches for, it must not forget its nature as languageand it is this which renders finally inevitable an encounter with writing" (198). Barthes calls attention to the nature of research as language to remind us that research is a discourse, that whatever it searches for, it finally and inevitably entails an act of writing. We encounter writing in the languages with which we conduct our search and in the discourses we compose to convey our findings to others. In composition studies, researchers encounter writing immediately as well as inevitably. Writing is not only the medium we use to make discoveries and impart findings to others but the very ''it" we search for. In this respect, writing is what differentiates composition studies from other fields of inquiry and unites its practitioners as a research community.

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