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  • This empirical mixed methods study explores copyright law's mediational influence on digital composing using a sequential transformative mixed methods research design. The author executed a digital survey (N=334) of students and teachers in US technical and professional writing programs. She also conducted discourse-based interviews with digital (student) writers regarding how they factored in copyright law and fair use in their composing decisions. The discourse-based interviews were supported as well by examining a wide variety of web texts supplied by research participant interviewees. Drawing particularly upon the work of Janice Lauer, Carolyn Miller, Cynthia Haller, Lev Vygotsky, and Chaim Perelman, the author synthesizes these scholars' work and uses that synthesis to frame her study with activity theory (AT) and rhetoric theory while simultaneously drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault especially as it relates to his concept of the "author-function." Three main areas of inquiry in the study are: (1) examining the status of knowledge and understanding of copyright law in the field of technical and professional writing (TPW) as well as with professional writers; (2) investigating the creative thinking processes, or rhetorical invention, of writers in these programs composing webtexts in light of copyright law; and (3) examining what happens to mediational means as writers leverage them in digital contexts. When synthesizing the data for this third research goal the author as well draws upon actor network theory, particularly the work of John Law and Bruno Latour. The study's six major findings are web spaces are sites of cultural collision, or commonplaces, where students occupy sometimes conflicting positions; The intertextuality of web-space-writing provides support for Foucault's theory that the single author is an ideological production representing the opposite of its historical function, i.e. the "author-function," in the larger culture. No support is found for a human culture existing without an "author-function," whether it is a workplace culture or even a more community-knowledge-focused culture as exists in India; Contrary to assertions by a number of scholars, for digital writers speech is not chilled. Copyright law as a system of invention organized by rhetoric instead produces speech; Rhetorical topics congeal as a heuristic mediating the digital composing process of writers. Copyright law is just one topic in this heuristic, and not the most important topic; For this group of writers, ethics trumped the law in importance when considering digital composing choices; Whether copyright law serves as a "rule" or "tool" on the AT triangle is influenced by levels of writers' knowledge and understanding of the law. Implications for teaching, learning and research include suggestions for changing TPW curriculum and pedagogical approaches, continued disciplinary theory building in the area of composing process theories as well as research design, and additional research with respect to a number of complexities and contradictions that emerged from this study. (xsd:string)
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