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Author LaFrance, Michelle, author.

Title Institutional ethnography : a theory of practice for writing studies researchers / Michelle LaFrance
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, [2019]
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Contents Introduction : twenty-first-century exigencies : materialist methods for writing studies researchers -- Institutional ethnography : a theory of practice for writing studies researchers -- How work takes shape : tracing the work of a "shared assignment" in a linked gateway -- The annual review as "boss text" and the coordination of writing center work : uncovering disjunctions between local and national discourse -- Mapping information literacy in a first-year English program : social relations, material conditions, and how things happen -- Conclusion : looking up, studying up, standing up notes
Summary "Reclaims ethnography as a rigorous writing studies research practice, particularly how "work" (a concept defined generously) is co-constituted within writing. The study of work and work processes reveals how institutional discourse, social relations, and norms of professional practice coordinate what people do across time"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Research -- Methodology
Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Research -- Methodology
Writing centers -- Sociological aspects
Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781607328674
1607328674