STUDYING WITH FIELDWORKERS Archaeology and Sociology

• Published in: Who Owns This Text? p. 80
• Main Authors: Mary R. Boland, Carol Peterson Haviland
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States Utah State University Press 15-12-2008; University Press of Colorado
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Archaeology; Civil law; Classroom activities; Communication skills; Communications; Criminal law; Criminal offenses; Education; Educational activities; Field research; Formal education; Fraud; Humanities instruction; Intellectual property law; Language arts; Language skills; Law; Observational research; Pedagogy; Plagiarism; Property law; Property ownership; Report writing; Research methods; Social sciences; Student assignments; Teaching; Writing; Writing assignments; Writing instruction; Writing skills; Written communication; Written composition
• ISBN: 9780874217285; 0874217288
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt4cgn56.6

Our study of fieldworkers emerges from the project outlined by this volume and a mutual interest in the role of discourse and writing in the creation of knowledge. We were curious about how scholars identify what is theirs and how these understandings inform their own citation practices and their teaching about plagiarism, questions we believe are intimately tied to issues of discipline-based epistemology. In other words, we were interested in how the language that other scholars use to talk about their subjects might embed the habits of mind and practices that animate scholarly work in those fields, including the ways