Engaging Research Communities in Writing Studies: Ethics, Public Policy, and Research Design

This book offers a principled engagement framework for writing studies researchers to interact with their communities, using empirical data from both writing studies and extra-disciplinary contexts. It explores the many facets of conducting research with human participants, including ethics, policy, and methodology, and examines the confluence of these factors in a philosophical investigation of writing studies as a public good.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 202 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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This book invites readers to reexamine how writing studies researchers collaborate with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on behalf of their communities, contending that engaging with IRBs during the research design process aids practitioners in conducting research more efficiently and effectively. Dr. Johanna Phelps, using empirical data from both writing studies and interdisciplinary contexts, presents findings from two discipline-wide studies, as well as metadata from two IRBs, to develop a principled engagement framework for writing studies researchers to interact with their communities. Phelps further examines the many aspects of conducting research with human participants, from comprehending federal policy updates to pondering specific ethical issues to developing detailed research designs, and explores the confluence of ethics, policy, and methodology in a thorough philosophical investigation of writing studies as a public good. This engaging and timely exploration of research design will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of writing studies, rhetoric and composition, technical and professional communication, cultural rhetoric, literacy studies, research design, research methodologies, research ethics, IRBs, justice, and critical theory. Chapter 4 and Interchapter 4 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003082002-9 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Chapter 6 and Interchapter 6 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003082002-13 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367534608