VII. Procedures

A. Digital Autoethnography | B. Invention Narratives | C. Qualitative Data Analysis

B. Invention Narratives

To check my autoethnographic data, I looked at both published webtext invention narratives and narratives I recorded through interviews.

i. Published Invention Narratives

The autoethnographic component of the project provides a starting point for further research into other authors’ composing practices. I selected three invention narratives from Kairos Journal’s Inventio section, focusing on projects that were relatively similar in format to the autoethnographic case studies to build a stronger basis for comparison. The projects included are identified and described in Table 1.

Table 1: List of Published Invention Narratives

ii. Interview Invention Narratives

Building off the initial foundation of investigating my own composing, I contacted other webtext composers who have published work that foregrounds design as argument in Computers and Composition Online and Computers and Composition Digital Press. I invited authors from four projects to take part in interviews; these authors and projects are identified in Table 2. I ask them to talk about their design process in relation to a specific published webtext. I also asked if they could share supplementary documentation about their published webtext with me (earlier drafts, notes, outlines, etc.). My interview questions are included in the Appendix section.

Table 2: List of Interview Invention Narratives