OUTLIERS,CHEESE, AND RHIZOMES: VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF LIMITATION     

Lynda Stone 《Educational theory》2011,61(6):647-658

All research has limitations, for example, from paradigm, concept, theory, tradition, and discipline. In this article Lynda Stone describes three exemplars that are variations on limitation and are “extraordinary” in that they change what constitutes future research in each domain. Malcolm Gladwell's present day study of outliers makes a statistical term into a sociological concept. Carlo Ginzburg's study of a sixteenth‐century miller who challenges Church doctrine initiates the field of microhistory. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophy of the rhizome offers a poststructuralist study of the doing of philosophy and the form of philosophical text. Although Gladwell's study is the only one specifically on the topic of outliers, the other two investigations are outliers as well. Overall the three studies demonstrate what can be revealed and learned when limitation is transgressed. This is an important lesson for educational research—wherein heretofore unimagined societal possibility and reform of education might result.  相似文献   

There’s No Such Thing as a Scientific Controversy     

S. Scott Graham  Lynda Walsh 《Technical Communication Quarterly》2019,28(3):192-206

We examine 81 rhetoric and technical communication studies of “scientific controversy.” Our praxiographic analysis reveals that “scientific controversy” is not one thing but three, each staged according to a radically different ontology; yet the literature continues to handle these ontologies the same and to privilege scientists’ demarcation claims in their analysis. We conclude the modifier scientific should be abandoned entirely in controversy studies and recommend an antilogical rather than dialectical approach to controversy.  相似文献   

Intellectual Property: Everything the Digital-Age Librarian Needs to Know by Timothy Lee Wherry     

Reviewed by Lynda M. Kellam 《Public Services Quarterly》2013,9(2):133-134

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INTERGENERATIONAL SHARING SEMINARS: THEIR IMPACT ON YOUNG ADULT COLLEGE STUDENTS AND SENIOR GUEST STUDENTS     

Mary Dellmann‐Jenkins  Lynda Fowler  Donna Lambert  Dorothy Fruit  Rhonda Richardson 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(6):579-588

A 3‐month intergenerational program was developed on the premise that it is important for young adults, who are in the formative period of career development and direction, to experience the benefits of positive interaction with older persons. Program evaluation findings showed that participation not only influenced the young adults’ interest in gerontology, but also increased their willingness to accept older persons on social and academic levels. Positive changes were documented for the Senior Guest students and included more favorable attitudes toward young adult family members as well as toward the younger generation of college students in general.  相似文献   

More research needed on the Academy of Health Information Professionals, the profession, and the Medical Library Association.     

Lynda M Baker  Marge Kars  Janet Petty 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2005,93(1):5-6

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Stimulus as a random factor in analysis of variance: Increasing the generalizability of findings     

Daniel W. King  Lynda A. King 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1979,27(3):179-184

All too often inadequate experimental designs and/or faulty statistical analyses preclude generalization of findings. The authors of this paper discuss the need, in designing studies having educational variables, to give more attention to recognizing the universe of generalization and to incorporating into the design a variable that represents this universe. They further recommend that data analytic techniques, in turn, treat the levels of this variable as randomly selected from the universe.  相似文献   

“Masculine” vs. “feminine” strategies in political ADS: Implications for female candidates   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Anne Johnston Wadsworth  Philip Patterson  Lynda Lee Kaid  Ginger Cullers  Drew Malcomb  Linda Lamirand 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(1-2):77-94

This study explored several research questions concerning strategies typically said to be beneficial for female political candidates. Six 60‐second videotaped political commercials were produced featuring a female “candidate”, each containing either a “masculine” or a “feminine” strategy. The strategies were aggressive, nonaggressive, career, family, ambitious, and nonambitious. Each political commercial was inserted into a set of four locally produced, nonpolitical ads. Six groups of students were randomly assigned to each of the six treatment groups. After viewing the commercials, subjects were asked to fill out a questionnaire to measure response to the candidate and to the ads through semantic differentials and Likert‐scale questions. Results from the study indicate that the “aggressive” strategy worked better in comparison with the “nonaggressive” strategy and the “career” strategy worked better in comparison with the “family” strategy. Few significant differences were found between the “ambitious” and the “nonambitious” strategies. Several implications for female candidates are discussed.  相似文献   

Is what we teach about organizational communication what they practice in organizations?     

Lynda R. Willer  Kristen D. Bell  Peter A. Andersen 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(1-2):95-112

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Examining verbal style in presidential campaign spots     

John Ballotti  Lynda Lee Kaid 《Communication Studies》2013,64(3):258-273

Presidential candidates rely on political television spots to communicate their messages to voters, and the language used in spots conveys the verbal style of the candidate. This analysis of 1267 presidential spot units from 1952 through 1996 uses computerized content analysis to identify the presence of verbal style previously identified by Roderick Hart: optimism, realism, activity, and certainty. Findings show different patterns for different presidential candidates, but overall trends suggest that optimism, realism, and certainty has been decreasing. Differences in verbal style for political parties, incumbents and challengers, and winners and losers are also explored.  相似文献   

Macon Memories: An Oral History Project at Randolph-Macon College     

Lynda Wright 《College & Undergraduate Libraries》2013,20(1):16-36

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