Blog Post #2 Research Topic with 7 Tentative Sources

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. 

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 Professional Communication Theory and Disability Justice to Challenge Intersectional Ableism in Job Advertisements Through Coalitional Recruitment. Technical Communication, 70 (3).  

Chang, H. (2008). Autoethnography as Method (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315433370

Haas, A. M. (2012). Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: A Case Study of Decolonial Technical Communication Theory, Methodology, and Pedagogy. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 26 (3), 277-310. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651912439539  

Mendoza, R. (2024). BIPOC Graduate Students' Coalitional Healing in Writing Programs and Colonial Institutions. Technical Communication & Social Justice, 2 (1), 23-43.  

McNely, B., Spinuzzi, C., & Teston, C. (2015). Contemporary research methodologies in technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 24 (1), 1–13. doi:10.1080/10572252.2015.975958  

Jones, N. N., Moore, K. R., & Walton, R. (2016). Disrupting the past to disrupt the future: An antenarrative of technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 25 (4), 211-229.  

Phelps, J. L. (2020). The Transformative Paradigm: Equipping Technical Communication Researchers for Socially Just Work. Technical Communication Quarterly, 30 (2), 204–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2020.1803412 

RE: Revision Plan

The balance of my sources relies heavily on peer-reviewed articles with one exception: Autoethnography as Method by Chang (2008). I think I will lean away from McNely, Spinuzzi, and Teston (2015) and focus more on an anthropological view of autoethnography. To find relevant sources, I am going to review Chang's (2008) book and find other reliable sources, and then move up the ladder to more recent articles that cite Chang (2008).

Essentially, what I am doing is the following:

1. Remove unrelated articles
2. Revise and read current articles
3. Attach relevant articles
4. Write up an annotated bibliography
5. Use an annotated bibliography to support writing my literature review