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Blog Post #2 Research Topic with 7 Tentative Sources

H ow does a researcher under Utah HB 261's restrictions conduct a study that researches DEI topics? This question will allow me to build a replicable framework that can assist and guide other researchers looking to conduct studies that possibly violate their state anti-DEI bill.  Topic Goal Questions Type Methods Research as Resistance: A process of conducting ethical social justice studies under restrictive laws Understand trends from my experience conducting a study How does a researcher under Utah HB 261's restrictions conduct a study that researches DEI topics? This question will allow me to build a replicable framework that can assist and guide other researchers looking to conduct studies that possibly violate their state anti-DEI bill.  Post-Modern Evaluative  Developmental  -Qualitative -Literature Review -Autoethnography 7 Tentative Sources: Bennett, K. C. (2023). How "Well" are We DEI-ing? Applying Technical and Prof...
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Blog Post #1 Introduction to a Topic

     In my Master's program, my instructor is requesting that we show an interest in a topic concerning Technical Writing and Digital Rhetoric (TWDR). Thankfully, I am looking to publish an autoethnography concerning my experience performing IRB research with legal restrictions that limit DEI initiatives. In the state of Utah, lawmakers passed H.B. 261, Equal Opportunities Initiatives. Under this bill, lawmakers scrapped DEI initiatives under the guise that it would open opportunities to those justly qualified. However, as proponents of DEI initiatives have reiterated, DEI initiatives do not encourage workplaces to hire unqualified applicants because of their identity markers, but rather, DEI initiatives encourage workplaces to horizontally open their roles to consider diverse applicants who are equally qualified.      In addition to stripping those DEI initiatives, lawmakers have gutted and dismantled multicultural support offices such as the Women's Resou...
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