Citation: Journet, Debra. “Narrative Turns in Writing Studies Research.” Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies. Edited by Lee Nickoson and Mary P. Sheridan. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012, pp. 13-24 Summary: In “Narrative Turns in Writing Studies Research” Debra Journet exposes what she views as assumptions made within the composition field concerning narratives. […]
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Accountability is Never Out of Style
Citation: Takayoshi, Pamela, Elizabeth Tomlinson, and Jennifer Castillo. “The Construction of Research Problems and Methods.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies, ed. by Katrina M. Powell and Pamela Takayoshi, Hampton Press, 2012, pp. 97-121. Summary: In this chapter, Takayoshi, Tomlinson, and Castillo explore how researchers make decisions and how a practice of ongoing, guided, critical self-reflection can improve research processes in the field […]
The Construction of Research Problems and Methods
Citation: Takayoshi, Pamela, Tomlinson, Elizabeth, and Castillo, Jennifer. “The Construction of Research Problems and Methods.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research. Hampton Press, 2012. 97-121. Summary: Takayoshi, Tomlinson and Castillo begin this essay by identifying, or perhaps constructing, an opening or gap in our understanding about writing research. They have noticed […]
Reflective Annotated Bibliography on “A Grounded Theory Approach for Studying Writing and Literacy.”
Farkas, Kerrir R.H., and Christina Haas. “A Grounded Theory Approach for Studying Writing and Literacy.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research, by Katrina M. Powell and Pamela Takayoshi, Hampton Press, 2012, pp. 81–95. Summary of the article: In this article, authors Kerrie R.H. Farkas and Christina Haas, provide an overview of what […]
Narrative Turns in Writing Studies Research
Citation Journet, Debra. “Narrative Turns in Writing Studies Research.” Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies. Eds. Lee Nickoson and Mary P. Sheridan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. Pp. 13-24. Summary Debra Journet opens her article with a general definition of “narrative” as it is commonly accepted by current academic attitudes: a mode […]
Addison on Narrative Inquiry
Citation Addison, Joanne. “Narrative As Method and Methodology in Socially Progressive Research.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research, edited by Katrina Powell and Pamela Takayoshi, Hampton Press Inc., 2012, 373-383 Summary Joanne Addison starts her article with a reflection on her experiences as a foster parent. This theme weaves throughout her […]
In the Absence of Grades: Dissonance and Desire in Course-Contract Classrooms
Citation: Inman, Olewski Joyce. “In the Absence of Grades: Dissonance and Desire in Course-Contract Classrooms.” College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, 2018, Vol. 69 (4), pp.30-32. Summary: Joyce Olewski Inman and Rebecca A. Powell borrow from the pedogogies of Danielewicz, Elbow, Thelin, Shor and Inoue, in order to implement a study […]
Narrative Inquiries
Citation: Addison, Joanne. “Narrative As Method and Methodology in Socially Progressive Research.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research, edited by Katrina Powell and Pamela Takayoshi, Hampton Press Inc., 2012, 373-383 Summary: Author Joanne Addison creates an interesting article by weaving together her personal story of fostering a severely abused child and […]
Strategies and Passions in Empirical Qualitative Research
1. Citation Broad, Bob. “Strategies and Passions in Empirical Qualitative Research.” Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies. Eds. Lee Nickoson and Mary P. Sheridan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. pp 197-209. ProQuest EBook. 2. Summary Bob Broad begins this chapter from Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies by beginning to […]
Your Own Life Signifies
Citation: Addison, Joanne. “Narrative as Method and Methodology in Socially Progressive Research.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies, ed. by Katrina M. Powell and Pamela Takayoshi, Hampton Press, 2012, pp. 372-383. Summary: In her study of narrative within the realm of research, Joanne Addison introduces the reader to a methodology that often draws criticism from the […]
Why we have Research IRBs
Citation McGee, Sharon J.. Practicing Socially Progressive Research: Implications for Research and Practice. p. 143 Summary McGee lays out the origin of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) that have their history steeped in blood starting after World War II in the shadow of the Nuremburg Trials, and they follow what are known as the Nuremburg […]
Troubling Research
Citation: Jacobs, Gloria E. “Troubling Research: A Field Journey through Methodological Decision Making.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research, Hampton Press, 2012, Print. 331-347. Summary: In this research study, Gloria Jacobs offers a first person account of a researcher attempting to carry out an ethically responsible methodology. Jacobs tries to eschew […]
“God Stories VS Coyote Knowledge”
Heather Loepp Professor Lucchesi Reflective Annotated Bib #3 11/25/18 Citation Writing Studies Research in Practice : Methods and Methodologies, Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.wwu.edu/lib/wwu/detail.action?docID=1354656. Summary The selection I chose to read from the edited collection, Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies was “Exceeding the Bounds of […]
“Composing Activist Research” by Stuart Blythe
Blythe, Stuart. “Composing Activist Research.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research, Hampton Press Inc, 2012. Print. 275-290. Summary Stuart Blythe discusses the different issues and elements that sometimes arise when trying to do activist research in regards to writing. He outlines many issues that come along with researching using […]
“A Complicated Geometry: Triangulating Feminism, Activism, and Technological Literacy”
Blair, Kristine. “A Complicated Geometry: Triangulating Feminism, Activism, and Technological Literacy.” Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies, Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central. Web. 63-72. Summary: The main objective in this article is to tie together, or triangulate, the three aspects of feminism, activism, and technology. Blair states in her essay […]
“Making Ethnography Our Own: Why and How Writing Studies Must Redefine Core Research Practices” by Mary Sheridan
Citation: Sheridan, Mary. “Making Ethnography Our Own: Why and How Writing Studies Must Redefine Core Research Practices.” Writing Studies Research in Practice : Methods and Methodologies, Southern Illinois University Press, 2012, pp. 73–82. Summary: Mary Sheridan’s article is a chapter in the larger piece of work Writing Studies Research in Practice : Methods and Methodologies. In her […]
Authenticity & the Other
Citation: Pruitt, John. “Heterosexual Readers in Search of Queer Authenticity through Self-Selected LGBT Novels.” Teaching English in the Two Year College. Vol. 42, No. 4, May 2015, pp. 359-374. Summary: John Pruitt describes the semester long descriptive research experiment in which he observes a group of self-identified heterosexual students read and discuss different books by […]
Expanding Considerations of Style
Citation Garza, Edward Santos. “Style Makes the Writer: Expanding Considerations of Style in the Writing Center .” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, Squarespace , www.praxisuwc.com/ edward-santos-garza-143. Summary In “Style Makes the Writer: Expanding Considerations of Style in the Writing Center,” Edward Santos Garza argues for the emphasis that should be placed on style in student writing, […]
Read, Read, Read!!!
Hallstead, Tracy, and Glenda Pritchett. “Reading: The Bridge to Everywhere.” Double Helix, vol. 1, 2013, pp. 1-12 Summary of the article In “Reading: The Bridge to Everwhere” Tracy Hallstead and Glenda Pritchett start with the premise that students and composition teachers alike see reading as a “waste of time” (1). They go on to argue […]
Internationalize This
Citation Frigo, Stefanie A., and Collie Fulford. Introducing Bringing the Outside In: Internationalizing The WAC/WID Classroom. p. 7. Summary Stefanie Frigo and Collie Fulford of North Carolina Central University begin their article, Introducing Bringing the Outside In: Internationalizing the WAC/WID Classroom, by defining internationalizing as the inclusion of international texts and ideas into the US […]
“Reflections in Online Writing Instruction: Pathways to Professional Development” by Bourelle et al.
Bourelle, Tiffany, et al. “Reflections in Online Writing Instruction: Pathways to Professional Development.” Karios: A Journal of Rhetoric, 15 Aug. 2015, http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/20.1/praxis/bourelle-et-al/index.html. Summary The article “Reflections in Online Writing Instruction: Pathways to Professional Development” is a webtext that “maps” out or explores the ways online writing instruction (OWI) can be used and can incorporate graduate […]
On Not Betraying Poetry
Citation Farber, Jerry. “On Not Betraying Poetry.” Pedagogy: Critical approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 15, no. 2, 2015, pp. 213-232, Web. Summary In this article, Faber addresses the decline in appreciation for poetry within the United States, explores potential reasons for the decline, and proposes some methods by which to engender […]
“Feminist Pedagogy” by Susan C. Jarratt
Citation: Jarratt, Susan. “Feminist Pedagogy.” A Guide to Composition Pedagogies (2014): 113-127. Web. Summary: In her essay, “Feminist Pedagogy,” Susan C. Jarratt details the necessity of feminist pedagogy and how the idea of “inclusion” can cause anxiety. For example, does feminist pedagogy just benefit female students? Or, does a teacher have to be female in […]
Forget Formulas: Teaching Form through Function in Slow Writing and Reading as a Writer
1. Citation Tremmel, Michelle. “Forget Formulas: Teaching Form through Function in Slow Writing and Reading as a Writer.” Composition Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, Fall 2017, pp. 113–129. Web. 2. Summary In this article, Tremmel makes a case for a composition pedagogy that focuses on regular, slow writing practices that involve a reading component which she calls […]
Feminist Pedagogy
Jarratt, Susan C. “Feminist Pedagogy.” A Guide to Composition Pedagogies, Tate, Rupiper, Schick, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 113-131. Summary This essay traces key questions and insights in the field of Feminist Pedagogy. The author synthesizes multiple perspectives on a number of inter-related issues through the lens of gender including: language and genre; discourse in […]
“Using Digital Rhetoric in a Multimodal Assignment to Disrupt Traditional Academic Writing: Conventions in a First-Year Writing Classroom” – Melanie Gagich, Cleveland State University
Citation: Gagich, Melanie. “Using Digital Rhetoric in a Multimodal Assignment to Disrupt Traditional Academic Writing: Conventions in a First-Year Writing Classroom /.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 11 June 2018, https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/using-digital-rhetoric-in-a-multimodal-assignment-to-disrupt-traditional-academic-writing-conventions-in-a-first-year-writing-classroom/. Summary: Melanie Gagich, proposes a new way of integrating multimodal, digital rhetoric into the first-year writing classroom. Gagich argues that […]
Radical Expression
Citation: Burnham, Christopher. “Expressive Pedagogy: Practice/Theory, Theory/Practice.” A Guide To Composition Pedagogies, edited by Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick, Oxford University Press, 2001, 19-35. Summary: Expressivist pedagogy, Christopher Burnham tells us, is centered on the individual writer with a strong emphasis on voice. He turns to allies of expressivism such as bell hooks, working […]
“Finding a Voice: Reconciling Discourses in Student Work”
Citation: Fraser, Gordon. “Finding a Voice: Reconciling Discourses in Student Work.” The WAC Journal, vol. 20, Nov. 2009, pp. 63-74. Web. Summary: In his essay “Finding a Voice: Reconciling Discourses in Student Work,” Gordon Fraser explores the struggles instructors face when introducing first year students to “academic writing” and the complexities that such a “skill” […]
Engaging Sources through Reading-Writing Connections Across the Disciplines
Citation: Carillo, Ellen C. “Engaging Sources through Reading-Writing Connections Across the Disciplines.” Across the Disciplines, vol. 13, no. 2, July 2016, p. 19. Summary Carillo aims to demonstrate how in a system where we emphasize the importance of “discipline-specific literacy” we are falling short by privileging writing over reading. She argues for the reinstatement of […]
The Teacher Ethos
Citation: Gregory, Marshall. “Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Teacherly Ethos.” Pedagogy, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 69–90, Web. Summary: In this article from the first issue of Pedagogy, Marshall Gregory lays out his belief that university faculty members must consider pedagogy as equally important to curriculum development. Gregory starts the article by challenging the assumption […]