 | Engaging Research Communities in Writing Studies: Ethics, Public Policy, and Research Design Subjects: Communication Studies; Education; Humanities; Research Methods ; Communication Ethics; Communication Research Methods; Communication Theory; Rhetoric; Writing & Composition; Research Methods for Social and Behavioral Sciences; Research Methods for Arts and Humanities; Higher Education; Philosophy of Education; Media & Film Studies; Quantitative and Statistical Methods ; Teaching & Learning; Ethics; Experimental Design and Research Methods; Media & Communications; This book invites readers to reconsider how writing studies researchers work with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on behalf of their communities and argues that engaging with IRBs during the research design process helps practitioners conduct research more quickly and effectively. Using empirical data from both writing studies and extra-disciplinary contexts, Dr. Johanna Phelps presents findings from two discipline-wide studies, as well as metadata from two IRBs, to develop a principled engagement framework for writing studies researchers to interact with their communities. Phelps further examines the many facets of conducting research with human participants--from comprehending federal policy updates to pondering specific ethical issues to developing detailed research designs--and explores the confluence of ethics, policy, and methodology in a thoroughgoing philosophical investigation of writing studies as a public good. This engaging and timely exploration of research design will be an important resource for scholars and students of writing studies; rhetoric and composition; technical and professional communication; cultural rhetoric; literacy studies; research design; research methodologies; research ethics; IRBs; justice; and critical theory. Chapter 4 and Interchapter 4 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/engaging-research-communities-writing-studies-johanna-phelps/10.4324/9781003082002?context=ubx&refId=07fec855-89cc-48d3-b893-fbcd53272512. Chapternbsp;6 and Interchapter 6 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/engaging-research-communities-writing-studies-johanna-phelps/10.4324/9781003082002?context=ubx&refId=07fec855-89cc-48d3-b893-fbcd53272512. Johanna L. Phelps, PhD, MPA, is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University Vancouver. Her research on public policy's impact on writing studies has appeared in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and Present Tense . Her scholarship on paradigms, programmatic research, and community engagement has been published with Technical Communication Quarterly and Reflections . |
