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•  Athanases, Steven Z. & Shirley Brice Heath, "Ethnography in the Study of the Teaching and Learning of English," Research in the Teaching of English 29 (1995): 263-87.
•  Barton, Ellen.  "Inductive Discourse Analysis: Discovering Rich Features."  Discourse Studies in Composition.  Ellen Barton & Gail Stygall, eds.  Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002.  19-42.
•  Braddock, Richard.  "The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose."  On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays, 1975-1998.  Lisa Ede, ed.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.  29-42.  (Orig. publ. in Research in the Teaching of English, 8.3 (1974): 287-302.)
•  Brereton, John C., et al.  "Archivists with an Attitude."  College English 61 (May 1999): 574-98.
•  Charney, Davida.  "Empiricism is Not a Four-Letter Word."  College Composition and Communication, 47.4 (1996): 567-593.
•  Cintron, Ralph.  "'Gates Locked' and the Violence of Fixation."  Towards a Rhetoric of Everyday Life: New Directions in Research on Writing, Text, and Discourse.  Martin Nystrand & John Duffy, eds.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.  5-37.
•  deMarrais, Kathleen.  "Qualitative Interview Studies: Learning Through Experience."  Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences.  Kathleen deMarrais & Stephen D. Lapan, eds.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.  51-68.
•  Emig, Janet.  "Introduction," "Design of the Study," & "Lynn: Profile of a Twelfth-Grade Writer."  The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders.  Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1971.  1-5, 29-31, 45-73.
•  Firestone, William A.  "Alternative Arguments for Generalizing from Data as Applied to Qualitative Research."  Educational Researcher, 22.4 (1993): 16-23.
•  Harding, Sandra.  "Introduction: Is There a Feminist Method?"  Feminism and Methodology.  Ed. Sandra Harding.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.  1-14.
•  Herrington, Anne J., & Marcia Curtis.  "Shaping the Study" and "Appendix A: Interviewing and Other Details of the Study."  Persons in Process: Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.  1-53, 399-407.
•  Kleiber, Pamela B.  "Focus Groups: More Than a Method of Qualitative Inquiry."  Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences.  Kathleen deMarrais & Stephen D. Lapan, eds.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.  87-102.
•  Kramp, Mary Kay.  "Exploring Life and Experience Through Narrative Inquiry."  Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences.  Kathleen deMarrais & Stephen D. Lapan, eds.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.  103-122.
•  MacNealy, Mary Sue.  "Case Study Research."  Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing.  New York: Longman, 1999.  195-213.
•  ---.  "Surveys."  Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing.  New York: Longman, 1999.  148-175.
•  Paine, Charles.  "The Uses of Composition History."  The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present.  Albany: State U of New York P, 1999.  21-44.
•  Palmquist, Michael & Richard E. Young.  "The Notion of Giftedness and Student Expectations About Writing."  Reading Empirical Research Studies: The Rhetoric of Research.  John R. Hayes, Richard E. Young, Michele L. Matchett, Maggie McCaffrey, Cynthia Cochran, & Thomas Hajduk, eds.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992.  513-549.  (orig. publ., Written Communication, 9.1 (1992): 137-168.)
•  Powell, Pegeen Reichert.  "Critical Discourse Analysis and Composition Studies: A Study of Presidential Discourse and Campus Discord." College Composition and Communication, 55.3 (2004): 439-469.
•  Prior, Paul.  "Tracing Process: How Texts Come Into Being."  What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices.  Charles Bazerman & Paul Prior, eds.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.  167-200.
•  Royster, Jacqueline Jones.  "A View from the Bridge: Afrafeminist Ideologies and Rhetorical Studies."  Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook.  Gesa Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, & Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau, eds.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.  206-34.  (orig. publ. in Royster, Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2000.  251-285.)
•  Witte, Stephen P., & Lester Faigley.  "Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality."  Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader.  Victor Villanueva, ed.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997.  213-231.  (Orig. publ. in College Composition and Communication, 32.2 (1981): 189-204).


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