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Ellen Barton. More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation.

Barton, Ellen. "More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation." CCC 51.3 (2000): 399-416.

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Negative argumentation about methodological approaches threatens to limit the field of composition: it exacerbates the tension concerning the place and value of empirical studies in research; it potentially limits the field's ability to ask certain kinds of research questions; and it risks impoverishing the methodological education offered to new practitioners in the field.

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