Quantitative Research: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 13 October 2006

Addison, Joanne, and Sharon James McGee, eds.  Feminist Empirical Research:  Emerging Perspectives on Qualitative and Teacher Research. Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 

Bamberg, Betty.  "Composition Instruction Does Make a Difference:  A Comparison of the High School Preparation of College Freshmen in Regular and Remedial English Classes."  Research in the Teaching of English 12 (1978):  47-59.

Berkenkotter, Carol.  "The Legacy of Positivism in Empirical Composition Research."  Journal of Advanced Composition 9.1-2 (1989):  97-111.

Bernhardt, Stephen A., Patricia G. Wojahn, and Penny R. Edwards.  "Teaching College Composition with Computers:  A Timed Observation Study."  Written Communication 6 (1989):  342-374.

Blalock, Ann Blonar, and Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.  Introduction to Social Research.  2nd ed.  Englewood Cliffs NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1982.

Braddock, Richard, Richard Lloyd-Jones, and Lowell Schoer.  Research in Written Composition.  Champaign, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 1963.

Daly, John A., and Michael D. Miller.  "Further Studies on Writing Apprehension:  SAT Scores, Success Expectations, Willingness to Take Advanced Courses and Sex Differences."  Research in the Teaching of English 9 (1975):  250-6.

Daly, John A., and Michael D. Miller.  "The Empirical Development of an Instrument to Measure Writing Apprehension."  Research in the Teaching of English 9 (1975):  242-9.

Emig, Janet.  "Inquiry Paradigms and Writing."  College Composition and Communication 33 (1982):  64-75. 

Ericsson, K.A., et al.  "Verbal Reports as Data."  Psychological Review 87 (1980):  215-51.

Everitt, B.S., ed.  Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics.  New York:  Cambridge UP, 1998. 

Fink, Arlene, and Jacqueline Kosecoff.  How to Conduct Surveys:  A Step-by-Step Guide.  Beverly Hills:  Sage, 1985.

George, A. L. Quantiative and Qualitative Approaches to Content Analysis.  New York:  Rand, 1959.

Haswell, Richard H.  "Change in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Writing Performance:  Quantified Findings."  ERIC:  1986.  ED 269 780.

Hayes, John R., Michele Matchett, Cindy Cochran, Richard Young, and Maggie McCaffrey, eds. Reading Empirical Research Studies: The Rhetoric of Research. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1992.

Hillocks, George, Jr.  "Criticisms of Experimental Studies."  Research on Written Composition:  New Directions for Teaching.  Urbana:  NCTE, 1986.  95-98.

Holdstein, Deborah H., and Tim Redman.  "Empirical Research in Word-Processing:  Expectations vs. Experience."  Computers in Composition  3 (1985):  43-54.

Johanek, Cindy. Composing Research: A Contextualist Paradigm for Rhetoric and Composition. Utah State UP.

Klaus, C.H.  "Research on Writing Courses:  A Cautionary Essay."  Freshman English News 11 (Spring 1982):  1-4, 13-14.

Kuhn, Thomas S.  "Mathematical Versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science."  Post-Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. John Rajchman and Cornel West.  New York:  Columbia UP, 1985, 166-200.

Lauer, Janice M., and J. William Asher.  Composition Research:  Empirical Designs.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1988.

McNealy, Mary Sue. Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing. Longman.

Norusis, Marija J.  The SPSS Guide to Data Analysis.  Chicago:  SPSS, 1987.

Pianko, Sharon.  "A Description of the Composing Processes of College Freshman Writers."  Research in the Teaching of English 13 (1979):  5-22.

Putnam, Hilary.  "After Empiricism."  Post-Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. John Rajchman and Cornel West.  New York:  Columbia UP, 1985, 20-30.

Roberts, Paul.  "Pronomial 'This':  A Quantitative Analysis."  American Speech 27 (1952):  171-78.

Schuessler, Brian F., Anne Ruggles Gere, and Robert D. Abbott.  "The Development of Scales Measuring Teacher Attitudes Toward Instruction in Written Composition:  A Preliminary Investigation."  Research in the Teaching of English 15.1 (February 1981):  55-63. 

Shaver, James P.  "Reliability and Validity of Measures of Attitudes Toward Writing and Toward Writing with the Computer."  Written Communication 6 (1989):  375-392.

Smagorinsky, Peter, ed.  Speaking about Writing:  Reflections on Research Methodology.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage, 1994.