Week 9: July 15, 2025

Topics
methodological frameworks; role of theory

Read for Class:

• A-Z entry on theoretical traditions  in Sage Communication
• A-Z entry on theoretical frameworks inSage Qualitative
• (SKIM) Taylor, Todd. (2003). A methodology of our own. In Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, & Edward M. White (Eds.), Composition studies in the new millennium: Rereading the past, rewriting the future (pp. 142-150). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• (SKIM) Scott, J. B., & Gouge, C. (2019). Theory in the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine. In A. Aldren, K. Gerdes, J. Holiday, & R. Skinnell (Eds.), Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley(pp. 181-195). University press of Colorado and Utah State University Press. (skim this one)
• McNely, B. (2024). Engaging ambience: Visual & multisensory methodologies & rhetorical theory. Utah State University Press. Chapter 1 and 2 (N.B. for those taking visual rhetoric in the fall, we will be reading the remainder of this book then.)

Do for class:

• think through based on our discussion of methodologies and paradigms what you think the role of theory is in research; be prepared to talk about this, particularly in light of one of the articles or book chapters you have already read this term. Pose a question or questions the google drive for this week

In class:

• discussion of theory and its role in research