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William F. Irmscher. Finding a Comfortable Identity.

Irmscher, William F. "Finding a Comfortable Identity." CCC 38.1 (1987): 81-87.

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Irmscher argues that the reason composition as a field is undermined in the academy is because composition does not have research methods that accommodate the particular needs of research-teachers who are investigating the complex writing process. The empirical research methods used in the 1970s and early 1980s "complicated the familiar and obfuscated the obvious" by microanalyzing the composing process. Composition should borrow the insights of other disciplines, but it needs to create its own humanistic, dramatistic model of inquiry that takes into account the specific needs and values of the field. In his conclusion, Irmscher lists the criteria he believes should be at the forefront of scholarly inquiry in composition.

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» Ellen Barton. More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation. from CCC Online

» Patrick Bizzaro. What I Learned in Grad School, or Literacy Training and the Theorizing of Composition. from CCC Online

» Michael A. Pemberton. Modeling Theory and Composing Process Models. from CCC Online

» Stephen P. Witte. Pre-Text and Composing. from CCC Online

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Emig, Janet. "Inquiry Paradigms and Writing." CCC 33 (1982): 64-75.
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Hillocks, George, Jr. Research on Written Composition. Urbana: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, 1986.
Lloyd-Jones, Richard. "Richard Braddock." Traditions of Inquiry. Ed. John Brereton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. 153-170.
Odell, Lee, and Dixie Goswami, eds. Writing in Nonacademic Settings. New York: Guilford, 1985.
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