College Composition and Communication Dec 2012

Training in the Archives: Archival Research as Professional Development

Jonathan Buehl ; Tamar Chute ; Anne Fields

Abstract

This article describes the rationale and efficacy of a graduate-level teaching module providing loosely structured practice with real archives. Introducing early career scholarsto archival methods changed their beliefs about knowledge, research, teaching, and their discipline(s). This case study suggests that archives can be productive training spacesfor all writing studies researchers.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2012-12-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201222115
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Open Access
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Topics
teacher development professional writing archival research qualitative research
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  1. Longaker et al. (2022)
    Archiving Our Own: The Digital Archive of Rhetoric and Composition at the Unive…
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  2. Daniel-Wariya et al. (2020)
    The Possibilities of Uncertainty
    Pedagogy
  3. Rivard (2019)
    Turning Archives into Data: Archival Rhetorics and Digital Literacy in the Comp…
    College Composition and Communication
  4. Lueck et al. (2019)
    Frameworks for Collaboration
    Pedagogy
  5. Comer et al. (2015)
    The Pedagogy of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives: A Survey
    Computers and Composition

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