Brandt1992
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BibType | ARTICLE |
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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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Abstract
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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