Research discussions March 21st 2013

Case study 1 Corpus-based English Engineering Materials Dougal

Case study 2 Elite language Pattamawan

Case study 3 Characterising researchers Richard

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

Characterising researchers 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 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 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 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