Working in the Archives (eBook) by Alexis E. Ramsey (Editor); Lisa Mastrangelo (Editor); Wendy B. Sharer (Editor); Barbara L'Eplattenier (Editor)ISBN: 9780809329502
Publication Date: 2009-12-14
Invigorating historiographic practices in rhetoric and composition studies / Archival survival : navigating historical research / Open to the possibilities : seven tales of serendipity in the archives / Invisible hands : recognizing archivists' work to make records accessible / Viewing the archives : the hidden and the digital / Locating the archives : finding aids and archival scholarship in composition and rhetoric / Searching and seeking in the deep Web : primary sources on the Internet / Finding and researching photographs / Looking for letters / Reading the archive of freshman English / Journeying into the archives : exploring the pragmatics of archival research / (En)gendering the archives for basic writing research / Archival research as a social process / Emergent taxonomies : using tension and forum to organize primary texts / The guilty pleasures of working with archives / The personal as method and place as archives : a synthesis / Keeping the conversation going : the archive thrives on interviews and oral history / Deep sea diving : building an archive as the basis for composition studies research / Autobiography of an archivist /