Writing studies research in practice: methods and methodologies

An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research. What does it mean to research writing today? What are the practical and theoretical issues researchers face when approaching writing as they do? What are the gains or limitations of applying particular methods, and what might researchers be overlooking? These questions and more are answered by the writing research field's leading scholars in Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies. Editors Nickoson and Sheridan gather twenty chapter.

Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: New Methodological Challenges for Writing Studies Researchers by Gesa E. Kirsch; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Current Conversations on Writing Research by Mary P. Sheridan and Lee Nickoson; Part One: Reimagining Traditional Research Practices; 1. Narrative Turns in Writing Studies Research by Debra Journet; 2. Reseeing and Redoing: Making Historical Research at the Turn of the Millennium by Liz Rohan.

3. Exceeding the Bounds of the Interview: Feminism, Mediation, Narrative, and Conversations about Digital Literacy by Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher4. Analytic Strategies, Competent Inquiries, and Methodological Tensions in the Study of Writing by Christina Haas, Pamela Takayoshi, and Brandon Carr; 5. A Complicated Geometry: Triangulating Feminism, Activism, and Technological Literacy by Kristine L. Blair; 6. Making Ethnography Our Own: Why and How Writing Studies Must Redefine Core Research Practices by Mary P. Sheridan.

7. Reclaiming the Mind: Eco-Cognitive Research in Writing Studies by Kristie FleckensteinPart Two: Revisioning Research in Composition; 8. Revisiting Teacher Research by Lee Nickoson; 9. Autoethnography in…