Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline

By Derek N. Mueller

In this book, the first published in the #writing series, Derek N. Mueller offers a methodological response to recent efforts by scholars in rhetoric and composition/writing studies to account for patterns indicative of the discipline's maturation. Influenced by work on distant reading (Moretti, 2005) and thin description (Love, 2010 & 2013), this monograph attends to forms of knowledge newly available via computationally mined, aggregated data from large collections of texts, which is then used to build experimental models for discerning non-obvious relationships. By shedding light on large-scale patterns, the models promote what Mueller refers to as a network sense of the field, which regards these as crucial structures of participation for orienting newcomers to the shifting terrain of disciplinary knowledge and for sustaining a generalist's wherewithal in the midst of a growing archive of increasingly specialized scholarship.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607328623
• ISBN13: 9781607328629
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Wac Clearinghouse
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up