Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 327.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:29:56 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: method/methodology in the definition of primitives?
Clay Spinuzzi, in "Designing for lifeworlds: Genre and activity in
information systems design and evaluation" (Iowa State, 1999), p 240
(<http://english.ttu.edu/spinuzzi/spinuzzi-dissertation.pdf>), cites Giesa
Kirsch and Patricia Sullivan to make the often blurred distinction between
method and methodology. A methodology, he notes from their book, is "the
underlying theory and analysis of how research does or should proceed"; a
method is the set of steps guided by the methodology (Kirsch and Sullivan,
Methods and methodology in composition research, Carbondale, Southern
Illinois University Press, 1992). Could we then say that Unsworth's
primitives are methodological whereas the lower-level software primitives,
such as SORT, are methodical?
Yours,
WM
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