Composition Research Empirical Designs

Intended for writing instuctors at all levels who lack the training todeal effectively with the increasingly important role played by empiricalresearch in their field, Composition Research explains ten of the most commonempirical designs used in the social sciences. These include: case study,ethnography, sampling/survey, quantitative descriptive research, prediction andclassification studies, true and quasi-experiments, meta-analysis, and programevaluation. Each design is explained with reference to at least two specificcomposition studies, and includes a separate bibliography that identifiesfurther writing studies that use it. The book also features a chapter onmeasurement, an appendix on statistical analyses, a glossary of technical termsand symbols, and guidelines for research on human subjects.