[ATTW-L] Final reminder proposals due Friday: #CFP: Research practice in TPC

[Lisa Meloncon]

Colleagues -

Michelle McMullin (mmcmull at ncsu.edu), Valerie Smith (smith539 at usf.edu), and
I welcome proposals for an edited collection on research practice in
technical and professional communication. A preview of the call is below my
signature.

To read the full call and/or download the CFP:
https://tek-ritr.com/research/research-practice/

*Deadline for proposals: April 19, 2024*

Queries or questions can be directed to any (or all) of the editors.

Happy spring forward,
Lisa


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The goal of this collection is to gather examples and case studies to help
others work through their own research practice quandaries. The editors
seek chapter proposals of *500-750 words *(excluding references) that are
written for a primary audience of early career scholars and researchers.

The collection seeks to gain insights into the “how” of *research practice*,
which is the “actual work and implementation of methods and methodology in
the process of performing research” (Melonçon & St.Amant, 2019).
Explicating the “how” of research practice would involve detailing the
problems, tensions, and complications that arise during research or what
recent rhetorical scholarship has called “investigative pivots” (Johnson et
al., 2021). In TPC, we see these pivots described in only a few works
(e.g., Angeli, 2018; Smith et al., 2021; Teston, 2012). To prepare to
negotiate complex research sites and research questions, including
engagement with communities, TPC needs a deeper and broader understanding
of “the beliefs and obligations that shape how one acts as a researcher”
(Grabill, 2012, p. 211), and how those same beliefs and obligations affect
research practice in the moment.

We hope to bring together diverse experiences of research practice that
consider (but are not limited to) the following questions:

   - How do researchers articulate their goals and methods with/for
   participants? And how might this articulation capture the process of the
   same?
   - How do researchers negotiate barriers, complications or shifting
   questions in the midst of a research study?
   - What does it look like to pivot or to reshape methods *in situ*?
   - How do researchers build reciprocal relationships with study
   participants? Should they?
   - How do researchers locate sites or artifacts for research, and how do
   sites and/or artifacts shape/inform available methods?
   - How might TPC teach research practice to undergraduate researchers vs.
   graduate students?
   - What is the relationship between ethics and practice?
   - What approaches to framing and describing methods support reflection
   and iteration of research practices?
   - How do researchers deal with the embodied and affective dimensions of
   research during (and after) the practice of research?

While this list is not exhaustive, it does point to the overall aims of the
volume to focus on the “how” of research practice.


-- 
Lisa Melonçon, PhD
Book Series Editor, Foundations and Innovations in TPC (
https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/)
Professor, Technical Communication, Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 Fowler Avenue, CPR 311
Tampa, FL 33620-5550
Phone: 803-370-0008
Email: meloncon.research at gmail.com
http://tek-ritr.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
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