CCR 720: Haswell (2005): "NCTE/CCCC's Recent War on Scholarship"

Haswell, Richard H. "NCTE/CCCC's Recent War on Scholarship." Written Communication 22.2 (April 2005): 198-223.

Informal summary:

Investigates the trend of replicable, aggregable, and data supported research within published literature of the field (on research papers, gain in writing courses, and peer review) sponsored by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Conference on College Composition (CCCC). Results indicate that there has been a dramatic decline in published RAD research within NCTE and CCCC. Warns that we’re hurting the future of our discipline: “As when a body undermines its own immune system, when college composition as a whole treats the data-gathering, data-validating, and data-aggregating part of itself as alien, then the whole may be doomed” (219).