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•Partner Collaboration - Discussion of how to present the material
•Interview - Transcribing the text and highlighting the key topics
organization of how Bazerman explains the placement
The placement of the middle range within this continuum:
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Which Bazerman suggests allows researchers following cycle:
A Conceptualization of Charles Bazerman's application of theories of the
middle range to Writing research.
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TheA Conceptualization of Charles Bazerman's application of theories of the middle range in Writing research.
The preceding cycle Charles Bazerman introducescontinues to develop how writing researchers can use the following
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The presentation here wraps everything together clearly, as does our concluding page.

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Zebroski, James (1994). Thinking Through Theory. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
you think will develop thinking critically aboutare relevant to understanding and
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Zebroski, James (1994). Thinking Through Theory. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
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What was the invisible yet intentional logic he was working from?
These questions introduced in class are the starting points that frame our logic of inquiry. Using a reflexive definition of logic of inquiry that we developed during this project, we describe "our logic inquiry" as our attempt to examine how we used various social structures and situated understandings to uncover the underlying logic of Bazerman’s "Theories of the Middle Range" (2008). It is represented and organized in this wiki via four categories that move through three different stages of development—basic, exploratory, and synthetic—each of which was characterized by our individual thought process, the partner collaboration, our interview, and the post analysis of our artifacts. In the basic stage, our understanding was limited by our lack of understanding of middle range sociological theory and other background knowledge and was centered upon our need to formulate framing questions as we entered the work. The developmental stage is characterized by our nonlinear process of using our prior and current knowledge of Bazerman's work and Writing Research, building on both our knowledge bases and synthesizing our thoughts, and culling researched sources that enabled us to understand where Bazerman's article was positioned in the discipline. Finally, the synthetic stage is characterized as our final analysis of Bazerman's article, which was only possible with the development of the previous stages and our situated learning process. In this stage, we are able to trace back each of our steps in a reflexive manner that allows for more critical discussions on qualitative research. We hope this wiki serves the purpose allowing education researchers to continue this critical discussion on the fundamental challenges and ideas in qualitative research.
add content and more resources to the
In order to map out this non-linear process, we represent this project in the form of a Wiki page. We chose the genre of the wiki to represent our work in order to:
1.) Create an accesible resource for our audience who may not be familiar with the field of Writing Studies and Qualitative Methods in Research that are the center of our artifacts of analysis.

What was the invisible yet intentional logic he was working from?
These questions introduced in class are the starting points that frame our logic of inquiry. Using a reflexive definition of logic of inquiry that we developed during this project, we describe "our logic inquiry" as our attempt to examine how we used various social structures and situated understandings to uncover the underlying logic of Bazerman’s "Theories of the Middle Range" (2008). It is represented and organized in this wiki via four categories that move through three different stages of development—basic, exploratory, and synthetic—each of which was characterized by our individual thought process, the partner collaboration, our interview, and the post analysis of our artifacts. In the basic stage, our understanding was limited by our lack of understanding of middle range sociological theory and other background knowledge and was centered upon our need to formulate framing questions as we entered the work. The developmental stage is characterized by our nonlinear process of using our prior and current knowledge of Bazerman's work and Writing Research, building on both our knowledge bases and synthesizing our thoughts, and culling researched sources that enabled us to understand where Bazerman's article was positioned in the discipline. Finally, the synthetic stage is characterized as our final analysis of Bazerman's article, which was only possible with the development of the previous stages and our situated learning process. In this stage, we are able to trace back each of our steps in a reflexive manner that allows for more critical discussions on qualitative research. We hope this wiki serves the purpose allowing education researchers to continue this critical discussion on the fundamental challenges and ideas in qualitative research.
more resources to the Resource Page to serve
In order to map out this non-linear process, we represent this project in the form of a Wiki page. We chose the genre of the wiki to represent our work in order to:
1.) Create an accesible resource for our audience who may not be familiar with the field of Writing Studies and Qualitative Methods in Research that are the center of our artifacts of analysis.

Dr. Bazerman's Logic of Inquiry
of Writing Practice"Practice."

Dr. Bazerman's Logic of Inquiry
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Dr. Bazerman's Logic of Inquiry
{Screen_Shot_2011-12-06_at_2.50.48_PM.png} To view the Prezi format of Bazerman's logic of inquiry in his article, "Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice"