Writing & Research Methodology

Date

Topic

Reading Due*

Assignments Due

1/5

Introduction

1/7

What is Research?

- MacNealy 1
- Blakeslee & Fleischer 1
- Hughes & Hayhoe 1
- Johanek 1

1/12

Research in Writing

- Johanek 2
- Juzwik et al “Writing into the”
- Taylor “A Methodology…”
- Mcleod “Celebrating Diversity”

1/14

Asking Questions

- Creswell 1
- Blakeslee & Fleischer 2
- Hughes & Hayhoe 2

1/19

No Class

Martin Luther King Holiday

1/21

Writing up your Research

- Creswell 3-5
- Blakeslee & Fleischer 2-3

1/26

Library/Secondary Research & the Lit Review

(present Annotated Bibliography)

- MacNealy 2
- Hughes & Hayhoe 3, 7
- Creswell 2
- Bring in your own examples of exemplars

1/28

Methods: Intro to Empirical Research

- MacNealy 3
- Johanek 3
- Yan “Age Differences…”
- Bowie “Landmarks, Links…”

2/2

Methods: Quantitative

(present research proposal)

- MacNealy 4
- Creswell 9 (8 in 3rd ed)
- Hughes & Hayhoe 4
-Rodgers et al. “The Impact…”

2/4

Methods: Qualitative

- Creswell 10 (9 in 3rd ed)
- Blakeslee & Fleischer 4
- Hughes & Hayhoe 5
- Tynan & Colbran “Podcasting”
- Ware “Confidence and competition online...” (skim)

2/9

Methods: Experimental

- MacNealy 5
- Kirsch & Sullivan 10 (Beach)
- Zaphiris “Expandable…”

2/11

Methods: Meta & Discourse Analysis

- MacNealy 6-7
- Kirsch & Sullivan 4 (Huckin)
- Haitt “Feminine Style…”
- Blank & Adams-Blodnieks “The Who and What…”

2/16

Methods: Surveys and Interviews

- MacNealy 8
- Blakeslee & Fleischer 5
- Hughes & Hayhoe 6
- Cyr et al “Website Design…”

Final Project Proposal

2/18

Methods: Focus Groups & Case Studies

- MacNealy 9-10
- Kirsch & Sullivan 6 (Mortensen)
- Hirvela "Computer-based reading…”
-Eubanks & Abbott "Using focus groups..."

2/23

Methods: Ethnography

2/25

Data Analysis

- Blakeslee & Fleischer 6
- Kirsch & Sullivan 12 (Grant-Davie)

Annotated Bibliography

(reading response not due, can do a "make up" response)

3/2

 Spring Break

No Classes

3/2-4

3/9

Putting it in Writing & IRB

Special Guest: Susan Vogtner will talk about the IRB

- Creswell 6-8 (7, 3, and not in 3rd ed)
- Blakeslee & Fleischer 7
- Brown et al. “Lottery…”
- Do the IRB CITI training

3/11

Methods: Mixed

Class will not meet. Reading responses will be done instead by us all. These responses are required an cannot be missed.

- Creswell 11(10 in 3rd ed)

feel free to skim one:
- Sommer & Saltz “The Novice as Expert…”
- McLeod & Haswell “Accelerated Classes…”
- Ritter “The Economics of …”

-Mini Research 1
-Reading response due by midnight, response to peer due by midnight Friday 3/13

3/16

Methods: Historical

- Kirsch & Sullivan 1 (Connors)

feel free to skim one:
- Glenn “sex lies, and manuscript…”
- Gold "Nothing Educates …”
- Popken “Edwin Hopkins…”

3/18

Methods: Feminist

3/23

Teacher & Classroom Research

- Kirsch & Sullivan 8 (Ray)
-  MacNealy 12
-Shipka "This Was (NOT!!) an Easy Assignment"
-Yena & Waggoner "One Size Fits All?"
-optional: Listen to a "PodPoster" of my Podcasting Assesment research (ranging from 2:53 to 11:16)

3/25

Collaborative Research

- Jones “How We Collaborate…”
- Kirsch & Sullivan 13 (Roen & Mittan)
- Lunsford & Ede “Rhetoric…”
- Ward & Grant “Co-authorship…” (chapter 13 of Beyond Methodologyaviable through NEtLibrary)

3/30

Usability & User-Centered Design Methods

- Barnum Chapters 1
- Spinuzzi “A Scandinavian challenge, a US response…”
- Spinuzzi “Investigating the technology-work relationship…”
- Spinuzzi “The Methodology of…”
- Grayling “Fear and Loathing”

4/1

Critiquing Research

- Sullivan & Porter 1
-  Johanek 4
- Kastman & Gurak "Conducting Technical Communication Research"
- Webb "Reconceptualizing classroom-based research"

Mini Research 2

(reading response not due, can do a "make up" response)

4/6

Issues in Research (including what we we call those people we research?)

- Kirsch & Sullivan 11 (Kirsch) & 14 (Ede)
-McKee and Porter "The Ethics of Digital Writing Research..."
-Hughes "Rigor in Usability"

Feel free to skim:
- Pinelli & Barclay "Research in Technical Communication"
-MacNealy "Towards Better Case Study Research

4/8

State of Research

- Haswell “NCTE/CCCC’s recent war…”
- Blakeslee & Splika “ State of…”
- Anson "The Intelligent Design…”

4/13

The Publication Process

- Roen "Revising for Publication"
-Drake & Jones 11 & 12
-Luey 2 "Journal Articles"
-Klingner, Scanlon, & Pressley. "How to Publish
in Scholarly Journals"
-Thyer chapter 7 -Berkenkotter & Murray. "Decisions and Revisions..."

4/15

Peer Review Day & Sample Presentation

Bring drafts for peer review

4/20

Presentations Day 2

-Heather
-Frank
-Jennifer

Presentations

4/22

Presentations Day 3

-Jin
-Jeanne
-Estefania

Presentations

4/27

Presentations Day 4/ Last Class

-Alice

-  Johanek 7

Presentations No reading responses due

4/29

Final Exam 2:45-4:45 (We do not meet. I will be in my office form 12:30-2:30)

Final Project “Paper” (turn this in no later than May 3rd)