Table of Contents
Issue Theme: Special Issue: Research Methodologies
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From the Editor: Speaking Methodologically [FREE ACCESS]
Kathleen Blake Yancey
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Remapping Revisionist Historiography
David Gold
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Rhetoric and composition historiography has recently undergone a rapid transformation as scholars have complicated and challenged earlier narratives by examining diverselocal histories and alternative rhetorical traditions. This revisionist scholarship has in turn created new research challenges, as scholars must now demonstrate connectionsbetween the local and larger scholarly conversations; assume a complex, multivocal past as the starting point for historical inquiry; and resist the temptation to reinscribeeasy binaries, taxonomies, and master narratives, even when countering them. This essay identifies and analyzes these challenges, posits responses to them, and suggestsexemplars for future practice.
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(Per)Forming Archival Research Methodologies
Lynée Lewis Gaillet
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This article raises multiple issues associated with archival research methodologies and methods. Based on a survey of recent scholarship and interviews with experiencedarchival researchers, this overview of the current status of archival research both complicates traditional conceptions of archival investigation and encourages scholars toadopt the stance of archivist-researcher.
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The Ethics of Archival Research
Heidi A. McKee and James E. Porter
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What are the key ethical issues involved in conducting archival research? Based on examination of cases and interviews with leading archival researchers in composition,this article discusses several ethical questions and offers a heuristic to guide ethical decision making. Key to this process is recognizing the person-ness of archival materials.
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In Possession of Community: Toward a More Sustainable Local
Shannon Carter and James H. Conrad
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This article summarizes various applications of oral history interviews at local sites to represent the writing of underrepresented groups. The coauthors (a rhetorician andan archivist) discuss the important disciplinary implications for tending to the local, especially at sites where formal archives are hard to come by, offering three principlesfor sustaining the local by combining research design with archival development.
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Critical Discourse Analysis and Rhetoric and Composition [FREE ACCESS]
Thomas Huckin, Jennifer Andrus, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon
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Over the past two decades, critical discourse analysis has emerged as a major new multidisciplinary approach to the study of texts and contexts in the public sphere.Developed in Europe, CDA has lately become increasingly popular in North America, where it is proving especially congenial to new directions in rhetoric and composition.This essay surveys much of this recent literature, noting how rhet/comp has incorporated CDA methodology in a variety of studies of inequality, ethics, higher education,critical pedagogy, news media, and institutional practices. CDA uses rigorous, empirical methods that are sensitive to both context and theory, making it ideal for the demandsof a range of projects being developed in our field.
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Special Section: Forum, Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty
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Institutional Ethnography as Materialist Framework for Writing Program Research and the Faculty-Staff Work Standpoints Project
Michelle LaFrance and Melissa Nicolas
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Institutional ethnography seeks to uncover how things happen—how institutional discourse compels and shapes practice(s) and how norms of practice speak to, for, and overindividuals. The Faculty and Staff Standpoints project is shaped by this methodology, as it explores writing center staff and faculty relationships to their work.
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Tracking the Mind’s Eye: A New Technology for Researching Twenty-First-Century Writing and Reading Processes [FREE ACCESS]
Chris M. Anson and Robert A. Schwegler
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This article describes the nature of eye-tracking technology and its use in the study of discourse processes, particularly reading. It then suggests several areas of research incomposition studies, especially at the intersection of writing, reading, and digital media, that can benefit from the use of this technology.
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Data Mining: A Hybrid Methodology for Complex and Dynamic Research
Susan Lang and Craig Baehr
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This article provides an overview of the ways in which data and text mining have potentialas research methodologies in composition studies. It introduces data mining in thecontext of the field of composition studies and discusses ways in which this methodologycan complement and extend our existing research practices by blending the best of whattechnology and researchers have to offer. The authors examine a process model for datamining, discuss benefits and liabilities, and link to increased calls for accountability.
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Grasping Rhetoric and Composition by Its Long Tail: What Graphs Can Tell Us about the Field’s Changing Shape
Derek Mueller
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Presented as a series of graphs, bibliographic data gathered from College Composition and Communication provides perspective useful for inquiring into the changing shapeof the field as it continues to mature. In its focus on graphing, the article demonstrates an application of distant reading methods to present patterns not only reflective of themost commonly cited figures in CCC over the past twenty-five years, but also attendant to a steady increase in the breadth of infrequently cited figures.
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Review Essay: Making Sense of Making Knowledge [FREE ACCESS]
Rebecca Rickly
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Reviewed are:
The Changing of Knowledge in Composition: Contemporary Perspectives
Lance Massey and Richard C. Gebhardt, editors
The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric: A Twenty-First Century Guide, 3rd edition
Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Winifred Bryan Horner, editors
Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies
Eileen E. Schell and K. J. Rawson, editors
The Ethics of Internet Research: A Rhetorical, Case-Based Process
Heidi A. McKee and James E. Porter
Becoming a Writing Researcher
Ann Blakeslee and Cathy Fleischer
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CCC Poster Page 11: Discourse Community
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CCCC News
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Announcements and Calls
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