Some Missing Links?

I found a couple items that might provide more insight to our reading this past week. One is a review of At the Point of Need, which appeared in CCC in May 1992; another is an essay co-authored by Wilson Nelson that appeared in 1998 in the American Educational Research Journal. Although the review was overwhelmingly positive, the reviewer did bring up a concern about the focus on self-directed writing in terms of not demonstrating how these efforts translated into success on "course-assigned writing that was undoubtedly based on the capacity to grapple with challenging academic readings"(Zamel 264). The essay describes the difficulties qualitative researchers have had to face in having their work recognized as legitimate by institutions more familiar with and more trusting of quantitative research.