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Writing Personal, Authentic Text
I help lots of folks write personal statements, research statements, grant proposals, letters of intent, etc. I enjoy it quite a lot. But more often than not, the first draft that’s brought to me lacks personality and authenticity. If 500 submissions come in, this one is going to sound like 479 of ’em. There…
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Knowledge Claims in Design Research
One of my summer research projects has to do with knowledge claims in design research publications. The question stems from an interest in understanding the similarities and differences between how knowledge claims are formulated in design research publications as opposed to natural and/or social scientific research. One would expect there…
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Discursive Tools of Subversion
Generative metaphors are one tactic that some members of the listserv use in order to create binary oppositions favoring particular forms of research activity over others. Another interesting strategy evident in two of Ken’s messages to the list is that of rhetorical attribution. By “rhetorical attribution,” I refer to the act of attributing thoughts, beliefs, or…
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Generative Metaphors in Discourse
Generative Metaphors. In his original post to the listserv, Mauricio took up a position on research through design and its role in PhD-level research. “I add that ‘research through design’ and ‘research-creation’ are not, yet, mature approaches to reliably use them in PhD level research.” He does acknowledge that it…
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Contextualizing Discourse
Who can write? Who can speak? The PhD-Design listserv is a publicly accessible email thread. Its current and archived communications can be accessed via jiscm@il, which is a collection of “email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communities.” Despite this description, the PhD-Design listserv has global membership with…
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The Return to Blogging Blog Part I
I do want to use this blog for the remaining weeks as a sandbox for playing with my data. But today’s entry is maybe better framed as half a description of the approach I’m taking and half a glimpse of (a piece of) that approach. A week or so after…
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2-23-2015
Wooffit’s argument in Conversation Analysis and Power seems to adhere to the following structure: Main claim: Conversation analysis offers a distinctive perspective on issues of power and social control. Ground I: Selling is an interactional achievement; market pitchers’ communicative skills [enable them to] manage the expectations, obligations, and potential hostile responses of…
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Critical Discourse Analysis
Some background: I read this week’s readings, went back and re-read the notes I took from last week’s readings, looked at my last few blog entries for this class, and took a (brief) second pass at this week’s readings. Here’s where I’m at: We’re learning different schools of discourse analysis…
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Patterns and Breakdowns
This is certainly not the first week of the course where patterns have come up in the readings. By patterns, I’m referencing what Wetherell describes as “regular ways of doing things which guide people and their discourse.” In discussing identity and group formation, Jorgensen describes discourse as a provider of “behavioral…
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