{"product_id":"distant-readings-of-disciplinarity-knowing-and-doing-in-composition-rhetoric-dissertations-paperback","title":"Distant Readings of Disciplinarity: Knowing and Doing in Composition\/Rhetoric Dissertations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDistant Readings of Disciplinarity\u003c\/i\u003e, Benjamin Miller brings a big data approach to the study of disciplinarity in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS) by developing scalable maps of the methods and topics of several thousand RCWS dissertations from 2001 to 2015. Combining charts and figures with engaging and even playful prose, Miller offers an accessible model of how large-scale data-driven research can advance disciplinary understanding--both answering and amplifying the call to add replicable data analysis and visualization to the mix of methods regularly employed in the field. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Writing studies has long been marked by a multitude of methods and interlocking purposes, partaking of not just humanities approaches but also social scientific ones, with data drawn from interviews and surveys alongside historical and philosophical arguments and with corpus analytics in large-scale collections jostling against small-scale case studies of individuals. These areas of study aren't always cleanly separable; shifting modes mark the discipline as open and welcoming to many different angles of research. The field needs to embrace that vantage point and generate new degrees of familiarity with methods beyond those of any individual scholar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Not only a training genre and not only a knowledge-making genre, the dissertation is also a discipline-producing genre. Illustrating what the field has been studying, and how, \u003ci\u003eDistant Readings of Disciplinarity\u003c\/i\u003e supports more fruitful collaborations within and across research areas and methods. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of composition in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, and he focuses on digital research and pedagogy. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eComposition and Big Data\u003c\/i\u003e and cofounder of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy\u003c\/i\u003e and the Writing Studies Tree, an online crowd-sourced database of academic genealogies within writing studies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734931017791,"sku":"9781646423217","price":51.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5f697b5f7ae19a676b7311bf29ea5df8.webp?v=1765141614","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/distant-readings-of-disciplinarity-knowing-and-doing-in-composition-rhetoric-dissertations-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}