Overview
This book invites readers to reconsider how writing studies researchers work with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on behalf of their communities and argues that engaging with IRBs during the research design process helps practitioners conduct research more quickly and effectively. Using empirical data from both writing studies and extra-disciplinary contexts, Dr. Johanna Phelps 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 facets 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 thoroughgoing philosophical investigation of writing studies as a public good. This engaging and timely exploration of research design will be an important 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Johanna Phelps (Washington State University Vancouver, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.660kg
ISBN: 9780367534585
ISBN 10: 0367534584
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 21 April 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Johanna L. Phelps, PhD, MPA, is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University Vancouver. Her research on public policy’s impact on writing studies has appeared in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and Present Tense. Her scholarship on paradigms, programmatic research, and community engagement has been published with Technical Communication Quarterly and Reflections.
