Comments on: Research Methods and Professional Writing http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/09/16/research-methods-and-professional-writing/ ENGL 605, WVU, Fall 2012 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Jillian Swisher http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/09/16/research-methods-and-professional-writing/#comment-185 Jillian Swisher Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:27:56 +0000 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/?p=478#comment-185 Tatiana, I think you've made an excellent point in identifying the "meta" qualities of this class and these reading responses specifically. You made the observation that we are "writing about studying writing and using writing methods to describe methodology of studying professional fields of writing and communication." In my experience thus far, it seems to me that much of our graduate curriculum in this professional writing program involves similar "meta" thought: writing about writing, talking about language, thinking about thought, learning about learning, etc. Tatiana, I think you’ve made an excellent point in identifying the “meta” qualities of this class and these reading responses specifically. You made the observation that we are “writing about studying writing and using writing methods to describe methodology of studying professional fields of writing and communication.” In my experience thus far, it seems to me that much of our graduate curriculum in this professional writing program involves similar “meta” thought: writing about writing, talking about language, thinking about thought, learning about learning, etc.

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