Designing Ethnographic Research in Technical Communication: Case Study Theory into Application

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Oct 1987

Designing Ethnographic Research in Technical Communication: Case Study Theory into Application

Alice E. Moorhead

Abstract

Field study, using an ethnographic approach, offers a potentially powerful methodology for the technical communication researcher, a methodology that provides a useful balance to the strengths and weaknesses of experiments and surveys. Technical communication studies, however, exhibit not only the typical constraints of field research but several additional constraints inherent to research conducted on-the-job in business, industry, and government, which deserve consideration when designing research.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 1987-10-01
DOI: 10.2190/dkb7-mh03-n50a-36vj
Open Access: Closed
Topics: qualitative research multimodality technical communication

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