Written Communication Jul 2021

Untangling Methodological Commitments in Writing Research: Using Collaborative Secondary Data Analysis to Maximize Interpretive Potentials of Qualitative Data

Shannon Madden Film Independent ; Sandra L. Tarabochia University of Oklahoma

Abstract

Writing and communication researchers are in the early stages of developing procedures for reusing and maximizing the analytical potentials of qualitative data. Contributing to this effort, we critically reflect on our methodological decision-making process in developing innovative procedures for cross-analyzing two distinct studies. Our reflection responds to the need for published guidance on how to undertake methodological adaptation, the lack of which limits opportunities for other researchers to develop new study procedures to address complex problems. By discussing how and why we made particular methodological choices and adaptations in our collaborative study of faculty and doctoral student writers, we propose collaborative secondary data analysis as a fruitful avenue for qualitative writing researchers and show its potential to enact richer and more equitable research designs.

Journal
Written Communication
Published
2021-07-01
DOI
10.1177/07410883211010166
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality multilingual writers

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