Survey Methods: 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 12 August 2006

Adams, Robert C. Social Survey Methods for Mass Media Research. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989.

Althaus, Scott L. Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Anderson, Paul V.  "Survey Methodology."  Writing in Nonacademic Settings.  Ed. Lee Odell and Dixie Goswami.  New York:  Guilford P, 1985.  453-501. 

Babbie, Earl.  Survey Research Methods.  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth, 1990. 

Baker, Colin.  "Survey Methods in Researching Language and Education." Research Methods in Language and Education. Ed. Nancy H. Hornberger and David Corson. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. 8. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1997. 35-46. 

Braine, George. "Academic Writing Task Surveys: The Need for a Fresh Approach." Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education 1.2 (1988): 101-118. 

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

Fink, Arlene.  The Survey Kit.  2nd ed.  10 vols.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage, 2003. 

Fowler, Floyd J. Survey Research Methods.  2nd ed. Sage, 1993. 

Huot, Brian. "Finding Out What They Are Writing: A Method, Rationale and Sample for Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Research."  WPA:  Writing Program Administration 15.3 (1992): 31-40. 

Plumb, Carolyn, and Jan H. Spyridakis. "Survey Research in Technical Communication: Designing and Administering Questionnaires." Technical Communication (1992): 625-638.

Scott, Patrick, et al.  "Reference Sources for Composition Research:  A Practical Survey."  College English 45 (1983):  756-68. 

Sherblom, John C., Claire F. Sullivan, and Elizabeth C. Sherblom. "The What, the Whom, and the Hows of Survey Research." ABCA Bulletin 56.4 (1993): 58-64. 

Singer, Eleanor, and Stanley Presser. Survey Research Methods: A Reader. U Chicago P, 1989. 

Thurgood, Lori, et al.  NCES Handbook of Survey Methods.  NCES 2003-603.  Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.  2003.  <http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS32886>. 

Weiser, Irwin.  "Local Research and Curriculum Development:  Using Surveys to Learn About Writing Assignments in the Disciplines."  The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999.  95-106.