Brandt1992

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Brandt1992
BibType ARTICLE
Key Brandt1992
Author(s) Deborah Brandt
Title The cognitive as the social: an ethnomethodological approach to writing process research
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Tag(s) EMCA, Writing
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Year 1992
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Journal Written Communication
Volume 9
Number 3
Pages 315–355
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DOI 10.1177/0741088392009003001
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This article explores the uses of ethnomethodology in developing a robust sociocognitive theory of writing. Ethnomethodology, a radical movement in sociology that studies people's sense-making practices, has some parallel interests with cognitive-process research in composition. At the same time, because ethnomethodology is attuned to how sense-making involves organizing social structure, it also shares parallel interests with social-constructionist thought in composition. This article uses ethnomethodological perspectives to translate the language of Flower and Hayes's cognitive theory of writing into a more thoroughly social vocabulary as a way of articulating the role of social context and social structure in individual acts of writing.

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