Sipai Klein and Research Tips/Journey info

How did he choose his methods - "Educator Design: Multimodal Texts" He is doing a case study on this. Architectonics (is a term he is also considering in his dis).

Examines composition process of 3 experienced professors who spent the semester designing videos to be used during the following semester -

(Michael Day and Janice Lauer- need to look into them for multimodal texts...)

First Steps

• Draft a page first - a summary of what you want to do...give to advisor for feedback, give back, draft 5 pages, then 10, and bigger and bigger
• Comes up with proposal, meets informally with proposal, he started closer with audio as instructional tool, but walked out knowing that his dis wasn't just going to be about audio - they said he needed to look at the text as a multimodal element - so his committee definitely veered him in the research direction he's taking now. He gave them about 20-30 pages...for a first look - by the time your advisor believes your ready for the committee, you will easily have that many pages - dis will be as long as it needs to be - needs to be a mindful substantive response to your research question so that your committee understand it and can give you feedback.
  
• Then, finding these multimodal texts - he had participated in an ICT summer crash course for faculty in how to use technology. He got ideas for researh participants from this summer course...
  
• His experience wasn't perfect, a lot of the things kind of just came about, on one hand it's promising and on the other hand, there's a variable called chance that can affect things as well.
• lit review was the least important part for his committee members - they wanted to know the topic, Why it's important, what are the questions and how is he going to solve this problems

This is what he provided:

• His intro - was why this issue was important to investigate
• Then Research questions
• Methods - and these are extensive
  

His Methods


Strategies for Staynig Sane

• Exercise 3-5 X week for 25-30 min - he sees this as it relates to his health -
• Keep a personal Journal - he merges this with his research journal (he does keep a research journal online - googledoc),
• Establish priorities
• facing fears by knowing that your stuff is your stuff - other people's stuff is their stuff - so that you own that fear
• identify your support network for various periods of time and task
• setting tasks based on energy - he has X amount of energy - not infinite - when he reaches his peak, he's done.f
• Work in SHORT sessions - less than an hour
• an investigator must work themselves out of the problem - he's contantly working through the problem
  

Strategies for organizing Data
He coded his data using color codes to be multimodal DOES NOT require a computer - he can explore ways to analyze data in other ways outside of computer...that's a myth - so he coded by hand - used method applied by Foss, Foss and ?? - Destination Dissertation - their coding method is the same as Creswell when talked about grounded theory - he decided to code by hand (his interview data - he collected interview/preliminary, observation (screen capture their computers when composing texts, and talking outloud as they are composing their texts)

Looking at composition as a process (flower and hays study) - took writers of alphabetic text and had them talk out loud as they compose their text and then code it and come up with a system - writers are reviewing, generating, goal setting, etc. - it becomes a process - This was alphabetic text,
Sipai is examining multimodal text and adapting this investigative tool to this multimodal text

Straus and Corbin (memos) and Waters/Foss - cut it up and put it envelopes - coded interviews - and timed his process on this coding too - Work in SHORT sessions - started counting and began creating concepts or categories from this - cloud concepts - "these are the 5 main clouds"...

Used company for transcriptions - a company in LA (verblink)

Think aloud protocols - he transcribed and coded by hand

Video - used hyper research - extracted categories -

now he has tons of categories -
starting creating think board -

Miles and Uberman - writing is thinking - writing is a cognitive behavior

Write a single page as fast as you can -

Also composing memos (Straus and Corbin) -

He is using multiple thoughts and theoretical ideas...

He merged these theoretical ideas and built his theoretical framework and discussion section...mergers Flowers/Hays with Bezzimer and Kress

Bezzimer and Kress - Written Communication (2008?? or 2000)

He is qualitative...

He does have a small part that doesn't fit - the social positioning part...he doesn't have to make it fit.

He didn't use outside coders - simple to train people - there are a handful of diss's that look at multimodal composition...

His methods are very recent so gettins someone to be able to apply these will be very difficult...he's one of the experts in a very limited field...

Writing strategies
Free writing, drafting, working on figures, reorganizing, outlining, journaling - all considered writing

• write in short, regular sessions - takes several days to recover from long exhaustive sessions of writing, short chunks allow for greater creativity
• break large tasks into small pieces
• after writing, indicate specific writing goal _ for example "i drafted first paragaphon XX" tomorrow I will write XX
• write first, revise later
• replace negative statements with positive ones
• critique and revise later
• making writing a top priority - modus oporende - my motis operandi is to write
• and he sees himself as what he envisions what he will be...what he wants to be - he sees himself as a publishing scholar and remember this when he is at a crossroads...
  

Other readings to consider in my research

• Kress - multimodal discourse - repurposing and recontextualizing images - selection, arrangement, forgrounding and socal positioning - are the key issues - taking one form of media and repurposing it with a new media - through these 4 categories...
• New London Group