<div dir="ltr">Colleagues -<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Michelle McMullin (<a href="mailto:mmcmull@ncsu.edu" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:rgb(53,39,18);margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(53,39,18);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font face="arial, sans-serif">mmcmull@ncsu.edu</font></a><span style="color:rgb(53,39,18);font-family:"Noto Serif",serif"><span>)</span></span>, Valerie Smith (<a href="mailto:smith539@usf.edu" target="_blank">smith539@usf.edu</a>), 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. </div><div><br></div><div>To read the full call and/or download the CFP: <a href="https://tek-ritr.com/research/research-practice/" target="_blank">https://tek-ritr.com/research/research-practice/</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Deadline for proposals: April 19, 2024</b></div><div><br></div><div>Queries or questions can be directed to any (or all) of the editors. </div><div><br></div><div>Happy spring forward,</div><div>Lisa</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The goal of this collection is to gather examples and case studies to help others work through their own research practice quandaries.<span> </span>The editors seek chapter proposals of<span> </span><strong>500-750 words </strong>(excluding references)<span> </span>that are written for a primary audience of early career scholars and researchers.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The collection seeks to gain insights into the “how” of<span> </span><em>research practice</em>, 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.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We hope to bring together diverse experiences of research practice that consider (but are not limited to) the following questions:</p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li>How do researchers articulate their goals and methods with/for participants? And how might this articulation capture the process of the same?</li><li>How do researchers negotiate barriers, complications or shifting questions in the midst of a research study?</li><li>What does it look like to pivot or to reshape methods<span> </span><em>in situ</em>?</li><li>How do researchers build reciprocal relationships with study participants? Should they?</li><li>How do researchers locate sites or artifacts for research, and how do sites and/or artifacts shape/inform available methods?</li><li>How might TPC teach research practice to undergraduate researchers vs. graduate students?</li><li>What is the relationship between ethics and practice?</li><li>What approaches to framing and describing methods support reflection and iteration of research practices?</li><li>How do researchers deal with the embodied and affective dimensions of research during (and after) the practice of research?</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">While this list is not exhaustive, it does point to the overall aims of the volume to focus on the “how” of research practice. </p></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
Lisa Melonçon, PhD<div>Book Series Editor, Foundations and Innovations in TPC (<a href="https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/" target="_blank">https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/</a>)<br></div><div><span>Professor, Technical Communication, Department of English</span></div><div>University of South Florida</div><div>4202 Fowler Avenue, CPR 311</div><div>Tampa, FL 33620-5550</div><div>Phone: 803-370-0008</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:meloncon.research@gmail.com" target="_blank">meloncon.research@gmail.com</a> </div><div><a href="http://tek-ritr.com" target="_blank">http://tek-ritr.com</a></div><div>Pronouns: she/her/hers</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"></span>
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