Brandt1992
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| 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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| Month | July |
| Journal | Written Communication |
| Volume | 9 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 315–355 |
| URL | Link |
| 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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