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It does so by articulating a theoretical framework for qualitative investigations of uptake and detailing a research study designed to invoke and capture students’ uptakes in a first-year writing classroom. The research design sought to make uptake visible by disrupting habitual uptakes and encouraging students to design their own uptakes. The study employed the qualitative research methods of observation, survey, interview, and text analysis to uncover uptake processes and influential factors that inform them. Ultimately, this article argues that a disruptive methodology can provide much needed insight into how individuals take up texts and make use of their discursive resources.  \nTen years after Carolyn Miller reimagined genre as not just form but also social action, Anthony Paré and Graham Smart proposed a research methodology that directs Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) researchers’ attention to the different kinds of social action that constitute genre. They suggested that researchers observe and study regularities in four areas: a set of texts, the composing processes used to create the texts, the reading practices used to interpret the texts, and the social roles performed by the writers and readers when using the texts (147) . By extending Miller’s definition, Paré and Smart argued that to study genre as a social action is to observe regularities in a set of texts and regularities in how people create, read, and perform those texts.  \nSince Paré and Smart put forward their methodology, scholars have continued to study the varied social actions of genre in both the workplace (e.g. Berkenkotter; Freedman and Smart; Schryer) and classroom (e.g. Artemeva; Fuller and Lee; Johns; Nowacek; Soliday) . Much of this research has focused on regularities, observing how readers’ and writers’ uptakes of genre work to normalize and, in some cases, formalize sets of texts, writers’practices, readers’ practices, and social roles. This is especially true of RGS research in the first-year writing (FYW) classroom that traditionally focuses on helping students learn conventional uptakes of academic genres in higher education. While the focus of much of this research has been on regularities, some studies also have revealed, although less explicitly and often indirectly, the value in observing moments of irregularity when sets of texts, writers’ practices, readers’ practices, and social roles are disrupted due to naturally occurring circumstances. Paré, for example, in a teacher-researcher role within his social work writing class, finds that his Inuit students struggled to learn social work genres because their own subject positions as members of the Inuit community clashed with the detached,“professional” subject positions embedded in social work genres. In other words, a disruption occurred as the Inuit students struggled to adopt the unfamiliar and uncomfortable social roles required of writers of social work genres. Paré capitalizes on this disruption to reveal the ideological action of genre, particularly how genres act to normalize particular subject positions and power relations within institutions.  \nStudying natural disruptions in the regularities of genre as Paré and others have done has been valuable in moving RGS research forward, and I contend that purposefully and strategically incorporating moments of disruption into our research designs within the FYW classroom context can be equally valuable to RGS. While a disruptive methodology as I conceptualize it has the potential to affect all four elements of genre, I am interested here in studying what happens when regularities in wri","cbCaiuGOkTIOM0jr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuGOkTIOM0jr","pdf",105496,18,"English","# Capturing Individual Uptake: Toward a Disruptive Research Methodology\n## The Challenges of Studying Individual Uptake","[{\"question\":\"What research goal does the article pursue about uptake?\",\"answer\":\"It articulates a qualitative research methodology to invoke and capture students’ uptakes, aiming to make uptake visible in a first-year writing classroom.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study make uptake visible?\",\"answer\":\"By disrupting habitual uptakes and encouraging students to design their own uptakes, so irregularities surface uptake processes and influencing factors.\"},{\"question\":\"Which methods does the study use to analyze uptake processes?\",\"answer\":\"Observation, survey, interview, and text analysis are used to uncover uptake processes and the factors that inform them.\"}]","Composition Forum 31 - Capturing Individual Uptake: Toward a Disruptive Research Methodology | PDF",1792087444,45]