Composing Research: A Contextualist Paradigm for Rhetoric and CompositionCindy 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 can develop less dichotomous forms that invoke the strengths of both research traditions. Context-oriented approaches can lift the narrative from beneath the numbers in an experimental study, for example, or bring the useful clarity of numbers to an ethnographic study. 2000 Outstanding Scholarship Award from the International Writing Centers Association. |
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Current Issues and a Brief | 28 |
Issues of Audience | 56 |
An Illustration | 119 |
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