Within complex organizations, people are members of various and sometimes conflicting
subgroupings. Texts function between and across these various subgroupings to …

Most discussions of qualitative research organize research methodologies according to their
place in a set of research paradigms identified by epistemological and ontological …

This distinctive monograph examines the dynamic rhetorical processes by which scientists
shape, negotiate, and position their work within an interdisciplinary community. Author Ann …

Professional communication is a growing component of English departments and other
communication programs. Yet, in most cases, the term professional communication is used …

Purpose: Technical communication research should link the academy to industry and
sustain both with a foundation for solving problems and identifying new areas of inquiry …

Ideally, academic research should inform workplace practices and workplace practices
should inform academic research and education. However, as many researchers have …

In this article, we recommend a research methodology, focus groups, that we have found
useful in supplementing other, more commonly used measures of qualitative and …

ePortfolios are considered the eleventh high-impact practice (HIP) by the AAC&U (now the
American Association of Colleges and Universities). They have been widely implemented in …

This design-based research study examines the pedagogical role ofsocial, digital annotation
(SDA) in teaching reading as rhetorical invention, particularly the kind of invention …

Thacker and Dayton argue that Web 2.0, with its ability to enable a variety of ways in which
users can interact within virtual worlds, can be used to enhance and strengthen the …