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