College Composition and Communication Jun 2021

Fingerprinting Feminist Methodologies/Methods: An Analysis of Empirical Research Trends in Four Composition Journals between 2007 and 2016*

Michelle LaFrance ; Elizabeth Caravella ; Thomas Polk ; Sarah Johnson ; Lacey Wootton ; Robyn Russo ; David Corwin

Abstract

This study surveyed and analyzed feminist methodologies in four composition journals across ten years. Our findings offer a number of important checks upon methodological and epistemological conversations in composition research, particularly how the methods we choose demonstrate our attention to social justice, the materialities of research practice, and the situatedness of knowledge claims.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2021-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202131442
Open Access
Closed
Topics
empirical research

Citation Context

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