Review for the midterm.  
The list below presents the focus and some of the points.  As you review - pay attention to how (and whether)  the methods and the methodological lens contributed to the study's value.  How important was the study?  How well designed was it?  What was the role of design in terms of the study's importance? 

Literature reviews = paradigmatic approaches to teaching + research
Berlin, history of writing pedagogies235

New rhetoric best – because ?

How you teach writing connects to assumptions about reality
4 different approaches to teaching writing :  neoclassist ;  expressivist;  Current traditional, new rhetoric

Bizzell, developmental approaches 299

William Perry = schema for moral development

Kirsch & Ritchie, paradigms for researchers  485

Politics of location – individual identities

C ausal Comparative + Correlational research + case study ; discourse , identity and writing + observational strategies to understand their relationships 

Brodkey, teachers + adult student writers,  621

Power dynamics in classroom discourse – those in power tend to protect (keep the same) their position
discourse related to classasessed power dynamics between students and teachers

Sommers, beginning + experienced writers, 43experienced / inexperienced writers

Surveys + discourse

Anderson et all pdf adoption of new media pdfnew media in writing classes

Bartholomae, identity & discourse & teaching, 523about students figuring out the discourse for the university (how to represent authority, information, etc  - in the conventions of the university

Royster, 555 

voice / authority

right to respresent own experience/self; right to theorize self/experience; right to be many, complex, interrelated selves

Elbow, 641  approach for teaching mainstream English that connects to home discoure

Grounded theory, participatory research & focus groups

Chandler & Castillo, pdf 

Ways new technologies have changed teen identity development (specific examples)

Participatory

Kean University Writing Group focus group findings, pdf 

Particular application of focus group research

Strengths + weaknesses

Ethnography and case study

Perl,  17

Development of objective method for studying writing process of unskilled writers => common language for talking about

Heath pdf 

Refuting assumptions of earlier language researchers: 1) that oral and written language are entirely separate and different; 2) literacy = progress

Young, autoethnography, pdf 

Phenomenological  complication of identity

3 moments in which he examined how identity was defined + who owned it

Experimental + quasi-experimental

Brand & Leckie

Quantitative approach => showed that  more positive feelings  associated with writing than negative