Description: At myriad points between utter mess and staid empiricism, research methods and methodologies in Rhetoric and Writing have, since Lauer and Asher’s 1988 volume, Composition Research, bloomed spectacularly. Accepting as a given the discipline’s continuously learning from other research traditions in the social sciences and humanities, as well as beyond the academy, ENGL6364 orients researchers to possible research designs selected and adapted from this expansive constellation. Our inquiring together into research designs will include analysis and application of methods and methodologies; that is, we will notice what others have done, puzzle over choices, and try it out ourselves. The course will key especially on terminologies and ethics, while extending to its participants experience crafting researchable questions. Such questions—and the provisional rationale accompanying them—will be informed by well-established scholarly accounts, contemporary debates, and recent award-winning dissertations. Insofar as digital environments to bookmark for continuing returns, the course extends into the following three locations: