Using Video Data to Map the Social Construction of Authorship

Abstract

This essay explains how video records reshaped the logic of inquiry in a study of a college composition classroom. Excerpts from the study's video data are used to illustrate how it was analysed synchronically and diachronically to construct a warranted complex picture of authorship.

Notes

¹For extensive analyses of how authorship became meaningful to students within discursive events leading up to Day 24, see the larger study by Murnen (2002).

Murnen, T. J. (2002). Constructing authorship in the composition classroom: An ethnographic approach (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, 2002). Dissertation Abstracts International, 63, 24–83.