{"id":6482,"date":"2006-01-12T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/jacing-around-w\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T22:50:15","slug":"jacing-around-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/jacing-around-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibliometrics JACing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>I got caught up reading the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalve.org\/go\/valve\/archive_asc\/C48\">Moretti Event<\/a><br \/>\nover at The Valve, but I still have a minute to post a few notes about something<br \/>\nI was thinking about earlier today.&nbsp; I read the introduction to David<br \/>\nSmit&#8217;s <i>The End of Composition Studies<\/i> yesterday; there, he has this to<br \/>\nsay about the ideological dissymmetry among compositionists, divergences<br \/>\ncharacteristic of the field at-large: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNo one can doubt that the field has become increasingly divided into narrow<br \/>\nareas of concern with little indication that scholars and researchers in one<br \/>\narea read, respect, or deal substantively with the work of those in other areas.&nbsp;<br \/>\nSince Stephen North&#8217;s pioneering work <i>The Making of Knowledge in Composition<\/i><br \/>\nclassified the work of the field into eight major areas, there have been few<br \/>\nattempts to bridge gaps between those areas. A comparison of the works cited<br \/>\npages in <i>College Composition and Communication<\/i>, <i>Rhetoric Review<\/i>,<br \/>\n<i>JAC: A Journal of Advanced Communication Theory<\/i>, and <i>Written<br \/>\nCommunication<\/i> reveals some overlaps, but not much.&nbsp; Hence the need for<br \/>\nadditional taxonomies, frameworks, and &quot;keys,&quot; such as those by James Berlin<br \/>\n(&quot;Contemporary&quot;); Richard Fulkerson; and Mark Wiley, Barbara Gleason, and Louise<br \/>\nWetherbee Phelps to explain the various areas of the field. (7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a common enough proposal about divisions, no?&nbsp; A balkanism,<br \/>\nattendant to new waves of theory wars, noting how we&#8217;re crumbling apart,<br \/>\nfraying.&nbsp; Reasonable as Smit&#8217;s insight may well be, however, I&#8217;m struck<br \/>\nhere by the notion that comparisons of our journals works cited pages somehow<br \/>\nreflect a field &quot;increasingly divided.&quot;&nbsp; To compare for increasing division<br \/>\nwould necessarily involve some longevity and detail work.&nbsp; It&#8217;s just that<br \/>\nthe journals most readily associated with composition&#8217;s disciplinary commons<br \/>\n(the noetic field (Berlin) or epistemic court (Lauer))&#8211;the journals listed by<br \/>\nSmit&#8211;aren&#8217;t really data-made for exhaustive bibliographic comparison.&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhat method, then, is available other than what we can discern by scanning the<br \/>\nlistings for a selection of articles?&nbsp; The interference for me as I read<br \/>\nthis passage from Smit is that our data structures for citation comparisons in<br \/>\ncomposition journals are, well, quite scarce.&nbsp; And that scarcity, while it<br \/>\nleaves us with little alternative other than to intuit increasing divisions<br \/>\n&quot;into narrow areas of concern&quot; based on citations, it also motivates our<br \/>\nthinking with <a href=\"http:\/\/inventio.us\/ccc\/\"><i>CCC<\/i> Online<\/a>.&nbsp; As<br \/>\nCollin has articulated before, with more discipline-wide embrace of data-mining,<br \/>\nwe would have&#8211;from all of the journals identified with the field&#8211;a more<br \/>\ndynamic database through which to test claims about &quot;increasing&quot; divergence in<br \/>\ncitations.&nbsp; For fear that this might sound disingenuous toward Smit, I&#8217;m<br \/>\nnot going for that effect.&nbsp; In fairness, I&#8217;ve just read the beginning of <i><br \/>\nThe End&#8230;<\/i>.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m increasingly alert to impressions of the field&#8217;s<br \/>\nbreaking apart that might appear differently if held up alongside a<br \/>\ncomprehensive collection of all of the citations ever made in any journal<br \/>\nassociated with the field.&nbsp; Why not?<\/p>\n<p>More to point&#8211;and the last thing for the night: Matt Kirschenbaum,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalve.org\/go\/valve\/article\/poetry_patterns_and_provocation_the_nora_project\/#comments\"><br \/>\ncommenting at The Valve<\/a> on the possibilities of the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noraproject.org\/\">nora project<\/a>, mentioned &quot;the capacity<br \/>\n[of nora&#8217;s results] to startle.&quot; I find this turn far more interesting.&nbsp;<br \/>\nHow would we go about assembling a comprehensive bibliometric\/bibliographic<br \/>\ndatabase for an inter-discipline such as composition studies (based, perhaps,<br \/>\nboth in<br \/>\njournals and in monographs) and, in doing so, celebrate its &quot;capacity to<br \/>\nstartle,&quot; rather than denounce it as faux-empiricism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>I got caught up reading the Moretti Event over at The Valve, but I still have a minute to post a few notes about something I was thinking about earlier today.&nbsp; I read the introduction to David Smit&#8217;s The End of Composition Studies yesterday; there, he has this to say about the ideological dissymmetry among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[170],"tags":[529,403,528,306,445,259,1158],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-method","tag-bibliometrics","tag-disciplinarity","tag-jac","tag-journals","tag-knowledge","tag-nora","tag-pattern"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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