Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Composition; data visualization; disciplinarity; dissertations; distant reading; topic modeling
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Rhetoric
The Making Of Knowledge-Makers In Composition: A Distant Reading Of Dissertations, Benjamin M. Miller
The Making Of Knowledge-Makers In Composition: A Distant Reading Of Dissertations, Benjamin M. Miller
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Combining qualitative coding with original algorithmic and quantitative analyses, this project aggregates and visualizes metadata from 2,711 recent doctoral dissertations in Composition/Rhetoric, completed between 2001 and 2010 (inclusive), in order to establish an empirical baseline of what new and established scholars in Composition/Rhetoric agree upon as acceptable research in the field. I find that both subject matter and methodologies largely collocate within a small number of clusters, but not without cross-over among these clusters, and I call for increased dialogue among schools focusing on these different methods and subjects.
Chapter 1, 'Disciplinary Anxiety and the Composition of Composition,' reviews the …