Research discussions March 21 st 2013 Case study

Research discussions March 21 st 2013

Case study 1 n n Corpus-based English Engineering Materials Dougal

Case study 2 n n Elite language Pattamawan

Case study 3 n n Characterising researchers Richard

Characterising teachers n n Katz (1996) investigated the teaching style of 4 teachers She characterised the teaching styles as – Earth mother – Choreographer – Entertainer – Professor

Characterising researchers n n In my research about how people choose where to publish, there are clear patterns for different researchers I want one to three-word phrases to characterise the researchers similar to Katz’s terms

Characterising researchers n n A: Follows suggestions of colleagues in deciding which conferences to send proposals to and which journals to submit to B: Has very different strategies depending on whether the publication is at a conference or in a journal

Characterising researchers n n C: Constantly tries to steadily increase the quality of place of publication (i. e. start with non-refereed national journal, move to refereed national journal etc(. D: Focuses primarily on the match between the topic of the place of publication and the topic of the research without worrying much about quality

Characterising researchers n n E: Focuses on conducting research; publishing is serendipitous with no real plans F: Focuses on who reads journal/attends conference so that research is targetted at the audience