Lenses on Composition Studies
Series Editors, Sheryl Fontaine and Steve Westbrook
Lenses on Composition Studies offers authors the unique opportunity to write for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who are new to the discipline of Composition Studies. While the series aims to maintain the rigor and depth of contemporary composition scholarship, it seeks to offer this particular group of students an introduction to key disciplinary issues in accessible prose that does not assume prior advanced knowledge of scholars and theoretical debates. The series provides instructors of advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students texts that are both appropriate and inviting for this fresh but professionally directed audience.
Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies
Vicki Byard
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
www.parlorpress.com
Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
© 2009 by Parlor Press
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Byard, Vicki, 1961-
Bibliographic research in composition studies / Vicki Byard.
p. cm. -- (Lenses on composition studies)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-1-60235-131-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-132-5 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-133-2 (adobe ebook : alk. paper)
1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching. 2. English language--Rhetoric--Research--Methodology. I. Title.
PE1404.B93 2009
808’.04207--dc22
2009036437
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
1 Directions to the Parlor: The Need for a Guide to Scholarship in Composition Studies
The Need for Student-Centered Introductions to Composition Studies
The Need for Bibliographic Instruction in Academia
The Need for Bibliographic Instruction in Composition Studies
Suggestions for Using This Book
2 Voices in the Parlor: The Construction of Knowledge in Composition Studies
Advice for Locating Scholarship
Definition of Empirical Research
Examples of Empirical Research
Advice for Locating Empirical Research
Examples of Practice
Advice for Locating Practice
Hybrid Knowledge
Works Cited
For Further Reading
3 Genres in the Parlor: The Dissemination of Knowledge in Composition Studies
Books and Edited Collections
Print and Electronic Journals
Theses and Dissertations
Professional Organizations’ Websites, Position Statements, and Conventions
Mailing Lists and Their Archives
Works Cited
For Further Reading
4 Approaching the Parlor’s Threshold: Preparing for Your Bibliographic Search in Composition Studies
Assessing Your Library’s Resources
