ENG 500 Research Methods: Rhetoric and Composition
Syllabus
Fall 2006
Maureen Daly Goggin
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Note: Assignments due on date listed.
Book Abbreviations: Composition Research (CR); Ethics and Representation (ER); Publishing in Rhetoric & Composition (PRC); Opening Spaces (OS)
Week 1 August 21 Introduction to the Course
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Week 2August 28 Introduction to Research: Rhetoric & Composition
Read: “Introduction” pp. 1-27 in CR; “Foreword” pp. vii-xvi; and “Introduction: Reflections on Methodology in Literacy Studies” pp. xix-xxxiv) in ER; "Preface" pp. ix-xxvi; "Introducing Critical Research Practices" pp. 1-13 in OS
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Week 3 September 4 ***NO CLASS: Labor Day Holiday****
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Week 4 September 11 Introduction to Research: Rhetoric & Composition
- Read: “Research in Composition” pp. 28-55 in CR; "Position and Parameters" pp. 15-43, and "Articulating Methodology as Praxis" pp. 45-75 in OS
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Week 5 September 18 Crafting Research Questions/Library Searches
- Read: “Ethics, Institutional Review Boards, and the Involvement of Human Participants in Composition
Research” pp. 260-286; “Afterword” pp. 287-300 in ER
- Rough Draft Workshop on Research Question and Rationale
Library Orientation and Search time
- Due: Rough Draft of Research Question and Rationale
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Week 6 September 25 Joining the Conversation: Writing In(to) the Discipline
- Read: "Work Habits of Productive Scholarly Writers" pp. 211-28 in PRC; Berkenkotter et al.; McNabb; Rose; Clark(Handouts)
- Due: Research Question and Rationale
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Week 7 October 2 Research Design Issues
- Read: “Numbers, Narratives, and He vs. She” pp. 56-86 and “From Epistemology to Epistemic
Justification” pp. 87-118 in CR; "Postmodern Mapping and Methodological Interfaces" pp. 77-99 in OS
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Week 8 October 9 Research Design Issues
- Read: "The Politics and Ethics of Studying Writing With Computers" pp. 101-41 in OS; “Dealing with Data” pp. 40-57; “Seduction and Betrayal in Qualitative Research” pp. 3-16;“Ethnography and the Problem of the ‘Other'” pp. 97-114; and “'Everything's Negotiable'” pp. 58-76 in ER
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Week 9 October 16 Research Design Issues
- Read :“Toward a Contextualist Research Paradigm” pp. 119-63 in CR; "The Emergence of Research: A Convergence of Personal, Political and Professional" pp. 143-61 in OS; “Constructing Voices in Writing Research” pp. 134-55; “A Text for Many Voices” pp. 155-76 in ER
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Week 10 October 23 Research Practices
- Read: “A Contextualist Research Paradigm” pp. 164-189; “Predictor Variables” pp. 190-204; and
“Conclusion” pp. 205-09 in CR; "Enacting Critical Research Practices" pp. 163-87 in OS
- Draft Workshop on Review of Literature
- Due: Rough Draft of Review of Literature for Workshop
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Week 11 October 30 Researcher/text
- Read: “Turning in Upon Ourselves” pp. 115-33; “Still-Life” pp. 17-39; “Dilemmas of Fidelity” pp. 77-94 in ER
“Person, Position, Style” pp. 47-56 in PRC
- Due: Review of Literature
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Week 12 November 6 Researcher/Context
- Read: “Engendering Ethnography” pp. 205-27; “Writing, Rap and Representation” pp. 228-40; “Social and Institutional
Power Relationships in Studies of Workplace Writing” pp. 241-59; “Culture on the Page” pp. 177-201 in ER
- Issue Reports Due
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Week 13 November 13 Additional Research Paradigms
- Read: “The Consequences of Theory for the Practice of Writing” pp. 147-62; “Observation-Based
Theory Building” pp. 163-86; “Conducting Research in the History of Rhetoric” pp. 187-96;
“The Politics of Electronic Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition” pp. 197-210 in PRC
- Issue Reports Due
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Week 14 November 20 Negotiating Roles
- Read: “Foreword” pp. xi-xv; “Introduction” pp. 1-2; “Breaking the Print Barrier” pp. 5-17;
“Publishing Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition” pp. 19-33; Scholarship and Teaching" pp. 35-46; “Graduate Students as Active Members of the Profession” pp. 229-35 in PRC
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Week 15 November 27 Sharing our Research
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Week 16 December 4 Sharing our Research and Wrapping Up
Due: Research Proposal
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