What Is a Workplace? Principles for Bounding Case Studies of Genres, Processes, Objects, and Organizations

IF 1.9 1区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Written Communication Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI:10.1177/07410883231185875

C. Spinuzzi

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Abstract

Many of our ideas about workplaces have been inherited from 20th-century corporations, in which the elements of the workplace have been packaged in a highly typified configuration: work is done by people belonging to an organization, for some clear reason, at a specific place and time, using specific processes. This configuration is increasingly at odds with work practice, and thus workplace writing researchers must reconsider what is meant by the “workplace.” This article argues for treating the workplace as a conceptual decision: a bounded case that researchers construct to enable systematic comparisons. After reviewing how cases are bounded in methodology and practice, the article ends with concrete principles and guidance for bounding such case studies.

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什么是工作场所？流派、过程、对象和组织的界定性案例研究原则

我们关于工作场所的许多想法都继承自20世纪的公司，在20世纪的企业中，工作场所的元素被包装成一种高度典型化的配置：工作是由属于一个组织的人在特定的地点和时间，使用特定的流程完成的，这是有明确原因的。这种配置与工作实践越来越不一致，因此工作场所写作研究人员必须重新考虑“工作场所”的含义。本文主张将工作场所视为一个概念性决策：研究人员构建的一个有限案例，以实现系统比较。在回顾了案例在方法和实践中是如何界定的之后，文章最后提出了界定此类案例研究的具体原则和指导。

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Written Communication COMMUNICATION-

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3.90

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric. Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains.