“Validity is a complicated and changing theoretical construct that has evolved significantly over the past fifty years. While traditional positivistic conceptions of validity tended to character… more →
But What Does This Mean?rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “Validity is a complicated and changing theoretical construct that has evolved significantly o … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “this study does not fall into the ‘conventional’ categories of ‘method-driv … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “concurrent, or think-aloud, protocols…There are questions about how thinking aloud affe … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: Intertextual tracing is tracing the detectable influences on a text by gathering all of the initiati … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: One of the key steps for researchers in tracing writing processes is collecting and keeping track of … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: Texts often respond to other texts that may be treated as initiators. An initiating text does not si … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “Understanding how people represent the process and authorship and understanding how a text Is … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “Goffman (1981) analyzed the everyday notion of the speaker/writer, suggesting that three role … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “When people talk about “text,” there are several different senses that we should … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: Pose a Research Question. Content analysis proceeds best if the researcher has a good research quest … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “Content analysis has traditionally relied on two basic methods: conceptual analysis and relat … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “Content analysis is the identifying, quantifying, and analyzing of specific words, phrases, c … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: p. 17 “Yee and colleagues (2003) define facets as “orthogonal sets of categories.” They note t … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: p. 17 “we can distinguish between facets and attributes. Facets entail an actual classificatio … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: p. 17 “Facets are about interpretation, so they are about conflict. They are about applying a … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: Strategies for Defining Terms (Summary) Some common strategies for defining terms: Stipulative: … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “Genre systems are generally important ways of organizing the temporal, spatial, and social di … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “We identified genres by their socially recognized purpose and by their common characteristics … more →
rebecca321 wrote 1 year ago: “Genres are dynamic rhetorical forms that develop from responses to recurrent situations and s … more →