The Ethics of Archival Research

What are the key ethical issues involved in conducting archival research? Based on examination of cases and interviews with leading archival researchers in composition, this article discusses several ethical questions and offers a heuristic to guide ethical decision making. Key to this process is re...

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Published inCollege composition and communication Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 59 - 81
Main Authors McKee, Heidi A., Porter, James E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01.09.2012
Subjects
Archives
Archives & records
Archivists
Case Studies
Civil Rights
Communities
Consent
Death
Decision Making
Definitions
Descendants
Economic Status
Ethics
Genealogy
Grandparents
Heuristics
Human subjects
Inclusion
Information Sources
Intellectual Property
Interviews
Media ethics
Pregnancy
Privacy
Qualitative research
R&D
Reflection
Reputation
Research & development
Research ethics
Research methods
Researchers
Rhetoric
Role
Student writing
Studies
Time
Writing
Writing Instruction
Written composition
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ISSN0010-096X
1939-9006
DOI10.58680/ccc201220859

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Summary:What are the key ethical issues involved in conducting archival research? Based on examination of cases and interviews with leading archival researchers in composition, this article discusses several ethical questions and offers a heuristic to guide ethical decision making. Key to this process is recognizing the person-ness of archival materials.
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ISSN:0010-096X
1939-9006
DOI:10.58680/ccc201220859