1st Edition

Engaging Research Communities in Writing Studies Ethics, Public Policy, and Research Design

By Johanna Phelps Copyright 2021
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book invites readers to reconsider how writing studies researchers work with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on behalf of their communities and argues that engaging with IRBs during the research design process helps practitioners conduct research more quickly and effectively. Using empirical data from both writing studies and extra-disciplinary contexts, Dr. Johanna Phelps presents... Read more

Introduction

First Interchapter: Defining and Historicizing Research with Human Participants

Chapter One: Situating Justice in the Research Enterprise

Second Interchapter: Surveys as a Data Collection Method in Writing Studies

Chapter Two: Metadata: What We Know About Research with Human Participants

Third Interchapter: "Medium" Data, Interviewing, and Corpus Analysis

Chapter Three: All "Spun Up": Findings from Familiar and Unfamiliar Methods

Fourth Interchapter: Collecting and Working with Census Data

Chapter Four: Don’t be too WEIRD: Research for the Future of Writing Studies

Fifth Interchapter: Revisions to the Common Rule

Chapter Five: Ethical Praxis at Sites of Writing Studies Research

Sixth Interchapter: Questions to Consider when Designing Justice-Driven Research

Chapter Six: Centering Practical Ethics in Writing Studies Research

Biography

Johanna L. Phelps, PhD, MPA, is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University Vancouver. Her research on public policy’s impact on writing studies has appeared in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and Present Tense. Her scholarship on paradigms, programmatic research, and community engagement has been published with Technical Communication Quarterly and Reflections.