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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:black; font-size:12pt">Please consider participating in a study (Clayton State University Proposal #: IRB20200824001) regarding how researchers in Technical/Professional Communication (TPC) engage
with Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols and practices (including, but not limited to submitting or approving an application or serving on an IRB).
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">TPC researchers have continued to both generate and complicate various research methodologies and methods in response to rapid changes in the field (e.g. Rude, 2009; McNely, Spinuzzi, &
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Some have explored how human subjects research protocols and practices, specifically IRBs, have rhetorically interacted with these expanded research methodologies and methods in the field,
drawing from their own and others’ experiences (e.g. Gurak & Silker, 1997; Bruech, Olson, & Franz, 2002; McKee & Porter, 2008, 2009; Angeli & Koppleman, 2011; Agboka, 2014; Angeli, 2017).
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">This study aims to build upon such research by locating how TPC researchers engage with IRB protocols and practices to conduct human subjects research, and perhaps participate on IRBs at
their institutions, particularly in ways that account for these expansions in research methodologies and methods.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">If you are interested in participating, please view/fill out the
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