My Interviewees as Professional Writers

Here, I continue to learn about my interviewees without actually talking to them. My focus is on their stance as professional writers. How do they present themselves to their peers through their writing?

Cecile McKee mainly writes journal articles in collaboration with Merrill Garrett, Sam Supalla, Dana McDaniel, Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir, and Maider Huarte. It appears as though most of her publications are particularly professional because it costs money to view most of them.

Her work includes editorials, journal articles, book chapters, reviews, conference presentations, invited presentations, and other outreach-related writing.

In “A Comparison of Pronouns and Anaphors in Italian and English Acquisition”, a research article, McKee examines how children develop binding skills (the ability to associate pronouns with their antecedents) in Italian and English language development.

In “Articulation rate: effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure”, another research article, Mckee reports on the findings of research regarding fluency and syntactic structure as compared between people of different ages and of different native languages.

Because her work is quite expensive to read, the context surrounding each piece is difficult to find. From the abstract I can glean the general idea but the specific research that went into each article is not available to me.

All of her articles are demonstrations of the information she acquires through research. Her purpose is to inform the reader of her findings.

David Sbarra has written numerous peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, journal editorials, and special issues. Similarly, Sbarra’s work is of the same caliber in that it costs money to view. His writing focuses on the findings of research he does in the field of clinical psychology.

in “Emotional Acceptance, Inflammation, and Sickness Symptoms Across the First Two Years Following Breast Cancer Diagnosis” Sbarra examines the relationship between emotional acceptance of the diagnoses and inflammatory activity.

In “Relational savoring in long-distance romantic relationships” Sbarra examines the effect of losing physical contact while attempting to maintain relationship satisfaction.

He concluded that there may be benefit in targeting emotion regulation to reduce inflammation and the resulting sickness. However, the specifics of the article are not available to me.

His articles, like McKee’s, inform the reader of the findings of his research.