ENGL 582

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Topics Research and Writing

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Credit: 4 hours.

Focuses on the diverse research paradigms that are often employed in the study of writing processes. Topics will vary each term. Examines past and current writing research in the topic area with an emphasis on the critical examination of research designs and the influence of epistemologies on the interpretation of data.

Same as CI 565. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in writing studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 582 class schedule data for spring 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32283	Lecture-Discussion	RI	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	61 English Building	Gallagher, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Title: Audience and Reception Section Info: Audience and Reception Studies in Writing Studies This seminar explores how to produce empirically-grounded and theoretically-rich studies of audiences in writing studies. It focuses on the fragmentation of audience theory after the propaganda of WWII and the so-called “hypodermic needle theory” of behaviorism in the early twentieth century. Beginning with Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s “universal audience,” we will focus on the development of audience theory through the term’s various deployments (e.g., involved audiences, discourse community, publics, users, networks, assemblages, machines). In more practical terms, we will examine the reception of writing and rhetoric (e.g., Kjeldsen, Stromer-Galley and Schiappa), focusing on ways to produce procedurally sound surveys and interviews. To put these ideas into practice, we will design both digital and analogue surveys as well as practice interviewing through a series of contexts (i.e., in-person, phone, video chat). Over the course of the semester, we will do several in-class activities that focus on reception studies, including how to structure (“clean”) the data obtained from surveys and transcription techniques. The course culminates in a research design that students could use in their current or future studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.