Points of Departure: Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods

摘要

Serviss and Jamieson, editors of a recent collection tided - Points of Departure - call for a return to empirical approaches in writing research. In starting the book with a brief overview of recent calls for RAD research (research that is replicable, aggregable, and data-supported), the editors suggest data-driven research at multiple locations can allow researchers to understand both local sites of inquiry and help make sense of larger multi-site phenomenon. In order to understand a greater phenomenon in writing, the field needs multiple studies that replicate key aspects from prior studies and use established methodologies while adapting and modifying aspects of those prior studies according to the needs and conditions of the local sites.