Composing research: a contextualist paradigm for rhetoric and composition

Composition research : issues in context -- Research in composition : current issues and a brief history -- Numbers, narratives, and He vs. She : issues of audience in composition research -- From epistemology to epistemic justification : toward a contextualist research paradigm -- A contextualist research paradigm : an illustration (including reprint of :Writing Quality of Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Graders, and college Freshman," by Eileen I. Oliver) -- A contextualist research paradigm : a demonstration -- Predictor variables : the future of composition research

In Composing Research, Cindy Johanek offers a new perspective on the ideological conflict between qualitative and quantitative research approaches, and the theories of knowledge that inform them. With a paradigm that is sensitive to the context of one's research questions, she argues, scholars can develop less dichotomous forms that invoke the strengths of both research traditions