By Gesa Kirsch, Patricia A. Sullivan
In unique essays, fourteen nationally identified students study the sensible, philosophical, and epistemological implications of numerous learn traditions. incorporated are discussions of ancient, theoretical, and feminist scholarship; case-study and ethnographic study; textual content and dialog research; and cognitive, experimental, and descriptive examine. concerns that move methodological obstacles, equivalent to the character of collaborative learn and writing, methodological pluralism, the category and coding of analysis information, and the politics of composition study, also are tested. members examine their very own examine practices, and so mirror the present country of composition study itself.
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Ede explores, among other things, the relationship between "our personal experiences and the work we produce," and she critiques the posture of Page 10 disinterestedness that is often assumed by literary critics and social scientists alike. As this brief overview no doubt suggests, our collection does not purport to achieve methodological consensus. We have invited contributors to think critically about their own research practices and hence to reflect on the current state of composition research itself, recognizing that dissent is often the condition of theoretical self-awareness, that self-consciousness emerges, as Gerald Graff notes, "when consensus breaks down" (253).
Moss describes her own experience in researching the rhetorical practices of an institution she has belonged to since birththe African American churchto highlight some of the problems that arise by virtue of the ethnographer's familiarity with his or her own community. She challenges composition researchers to examine their own roles in the communities they study and the ways in which these roles influence how and what they observe in those communities. In "Composition from the Teacher-Research Point of View," Ruth Ray examines the purpose, practice, and politics of teacher research.
There, go to the primary sources. See what they say to you. And what are those primary sources? Composition textbooks Page 19 since the beginning of composition history have been obvious sources, able to tell us much about both the theory and the practice of writing pedagogy. From John Walker's Teacher's Assistant in English Composition of 1795 onward, they were used as the theoretical matrices of courses. Soon after 1810, questions to be asked in classes became part of textbook apparatus, thus providing classroom organization.