Becoming a Writing Researcher

Design of a Web-Based Decision Support Information System for YMM FI Scholarship Recipients Using the SMART Method

“…The benefits of this research can be felt by researchers or readers. However, to produce useful or conclusive research results, comprehensive research is needed in order to carry out the research in depth, so someone must be able to conduct research systematically or use a research methodology [10]. The creation of valid methodological and research information sources is meticulously done to ensure no gaps in proposed solutions to thematic research problems.…”

Pain or Gain? How Business Communication Students Perceive the Outlining Process

“…To answer Research Question 1 investigating what students associate with the terms outline or outlining, I used coding procedures common to qualitative data analysis to analyze students’ responses to the survey’s first question: “What comes to mind when you hear words such as ‘outline’ or ‘outlining’?” To conduct the analysis, I followed coding steps prescribed by Blakeslee and Fleischer (2010): first, identifying themes; second, identifying categories within the themes; and lastly, coding the data. As Blakeslee and Fleischer (2010) suggested, I recursively read and analyzed the data, engaging with it on several occasions to find the themes and categories that seemed most descriptive of the associations. The number of responses related to each association varied; therefore, in the Results, I detail associations based on frequency of response, omitting some associations that students mentioned less frequently.…”

The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine as a “Teaching Subject”: Lessons from the Medical Humanities and Simulation Pedagogy

“…This is perhaps not surprising given that the methodological training for experts in fields such as narrative medicine "is underpinned by philosophical approaches such as phenomenology, postmodernism, and narratology… [with] tools of language such as metaphor, plot, character and temporality" (Barber & Moreno-Leguizamon, 2017, p. 1). RHM scholars, on the other hand, frequently wear "hats" in first year writing, writing in the disciplines, or professional and technical communication, fields which have long relied on social science methodologies for research and assessment (Hughes & Hayhoe, 2009;Blakeslee & Fleischer, 2009;White, Elliot, & Peckham, 2015). Thus, RHM scholars often have experience speaking the language of administrators that value skill acquisition, while also advancing nuanced arguments that challenge this perspective on rhetorical learning.…”