UID:
almahu_9949576928902882
Umfang:
1 online resource (240 p.)
ISBN:
9786613266798
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9781283266796
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1283266792
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9780874213225
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0874213223
Inhalt:
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 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. A pragmatic scholar, Johanek moves easily
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 COMPOSITION RESEARCH Issues in Context; 2 RESEARCH IN COMPOSITION Current Issues and A Brief History; 3 NUMBERS, NARRATIVES, AND HE VS. SHE Issues of Audience in Composition Research; 4 FROM EPISTEMOLOGY TO EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION Toward a Contextualist Research Paradigm; 5 A CONTEXTUALIST RESEARCH PARADIGM An Illustration; 6 A CONTEXTUALIST RESEARCH PARADIGM A Demonstration; 7 PREDICTOR VARIABLES The Future of Composition Research; 8 CONCLUSIONS (AND BEGINNINGS); REFERENCES for Eileen Oliver's "Writing Quality, etc."; WORKS CITED; INDEX
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780874212921
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0874212928
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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