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August 10, 2006
the infamous nate [methodology]
Berkenkotter, Carol, Thomas N. Hucken, & John Ackerman. "Social Context and Socially Constructed Texts." in Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities. Ed. Charles Bazerman and James Paradis. Madison, WN: U Wisconsin P. 1991. 191-215.
what they did to him: "this data, which consisted of nate's written self reports chronicling his experiences in the program, weekly taped interviews, copies of papers the students wrote, as well as CB's field notes, were reduced and translated into a narrative of Nate's progress as a writer during his first year. this part of the data analysis was carried out by CB and JA. the remaining author (TH), using a series of linguistic measures, independently analyzed the papers nate wrote" (192).
& nate's contribution to this interpretation/analysis? (yes, i know, he published an elaboration/answer/rebuttal under his real name later, but it didn't really add anything methodological, except for underscoring his level of distance from the interpretive actions of the study-team.)
Posted by ttobryan at August 10, 2006 05:01 PM