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August 10, 2006

Research: The Gift That Keeps Giving

The title to this entry is Chris Anson's. It's the title on a text box on the last page of his handout from the WPA plenary. I pulled it out of its file this morning as I plan my fall work (both teaching and research), and the list in Anson's text box is sufficiently provocative that I'll reproduce it here. His list is open bullets; for purposes of discussion, I'm turning it into a numbered list:

  1. Do more research on critical questions
  2. Revisit "old" research findings
  3. Begin a tradition of replication
  4. Create a culture of engagement in and consumption of research
  5. Produce more meta-analyses
  6. Make research syntheses more readily available online
  7. Publicize the results of important studies and syntheses
  8. Expose the inaccurate or misleadingly selective use of research
  9. Advocate more teacher/classroom research and reflective inquiry
  10. Reintegrate research into graduate programs in composition
  11. Heighten requirements that authors of journal articles support generalizations
  12. Build and support more venues for research
  13. Create contexts for larger-scale, national, and collaborative research
  14. Expose attacks on education when they lack adequate research support for their claims
  15. Represent the field as research-based
  16. Pool research with that from other fields
By the way, I understand from Anson that his WPA plenary will be a journal article. Soon, I hope, lots of people will have it to reference and work from.

Posted by senioritis at August 10, 2006 09:45 AM

Comments

Y'know, I *already* think too globally. This is not helping me! ;)

Posted by: susansinclair at August 10, 2006 01:29 PM

Glad you posted this. We need to circulate it far and wide IMHO--and then do these things!

Posted by: sandra at August 12, 2006 10:44 PM