ENC 5720 Spring 2022 Barajas

The course is an introduction to research design and practice, the evaluation of research studies, and bibliographic resources for conducting research in rhetoric and composition. The research methods, methodologies, and epistemologies covered may often prove to be interdisciplinary, requiring the examination of theories and foundational concepts derived from other academic disciplines. The overarching goal of the course is to explore the major research paradigms in the field with the aims of examining how they construct knowledge, exposing their underlying assumptions, and probing their ethical implications.