Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Appendices
Foreword by Karen J. Lunsford
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rise of RAD Research Methods for Writing Studies: Transcontextual Ways Forward / Tricia Serviss
Part 1: Developing Transcontextual Research Projects
Interchapter 1: What Do We Mean by Transcontextual RAD Research?
Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Citation Project: Developing a Pilot Study from Local to Translocal / Sandra Jamieson
Chapter 2: Reports from the LILAC Project: Designing a Translocal Study / Katt Blackwell-Starnes and Janice R. Walker
Points of Departure 1: Replication and the Need to Build on and Expand Local and Pilot Studies
Part 2: Building on Transcontextual Research
Interchapter 2: What Does Design-Based Research Offer as a Tool for RAD Research in Writing Studies?
Chapter 3: The Things They Carry: Using Design-Based Research in Writing-Teacher Education / Tricia Serviss
Chapter 4: Storied Research: Using Focus Groups as a Responsive Method / Crystal Benedicks
Chapter 5: Terms and Perceptions: Using Surveys to Discover Student Beliefs about Research / Kristi Murray Costello
Points of Departure 2: Developing Design-Based Local and Translocal Studies
Part 3: Exploring Information Contexts
Interchapter 3: What Does Threshold-Concept Research Offer Writing Studies RAD Research?
Chapter 6: Research and Rhetorical Purpose: Using Genre Analysis to Understand Source Use in Technical and Professional Writing / Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch and Brian N. Larson
Chapter 7: Asking the Right Questions: Using Interviews to Explore Information-Seeking Behavior / M. Whitney Olsen and Anne R. Diekema
Chapter 8: Just Read the Assignment: Using Course Documents to Analyze Research Pedagogy / Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Points of Departure 3: Using Existing Research to Think beyond the Local
Afterword: Teaching Hybridity in Graduate Research Courses / Rebecca Moore Howard
About the Authors
Index