Paul Prior
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Prior |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Prior |
| SIGNATURE | PRIOR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2813-4505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bazerman, Charles
Charles Bazerman's foundational contributions to the interdisciplinary field of writing and literacy studies have had a wide influence in applied linguistics. As a writing researcher, rhetorician, and literacy theorist, he is particularly known for his contributions to genre theory, the rhetoric of science and technology, writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines (WAC/WID), and theories of literate practice as social action.
Considering multimodal conversation analysis from a flat, intra-active perspective on situated, historical, embodied semiosis
Rearticulating theory and methodology for perezhivanie and becoming
Taking up Lemke’s (2000) critical questions of how moments add up to lives and social life, we articulate theoretical and methodological frameworks for perezhivanie and becoming, challenging binaries that splinter entangled flows of perezhivanie into frozen categories. Working from a flat CHAT notion of assemblage to develop an ontology of moments, we stress consequentiality, arguing it emerges in intersections of embodied intensities (not only a…
A Flat CHAT perspective on transliteracies development
Examining two longitudinal cases of writing development, we argue for a Flat CHAT (cultural-historical activity theory) perspective on transliteracies development that focuses attention on laminated assemblage—how times, spaces, artifacts, and people converge in complex and unfolding trajectories of becoming. The first case focuses on Nora, a post-doctorate biologist working on the behavioral neuroendocrinology of birds' sociality. Based on life-…
Forum
I am writing in response to the recent Forum essay “Taking the Long View on Writing Development,” authored by Bazerman, Applebee, Berninger, Brandt, Graham, Matsuda, Murphy, Rowe, and Schleppegrell (2017; and hereafter “The Long View”). I argue that “The Long View” was driven by the aim of identifying consensus rather than working through difference, that the principles represent commonplaces rather than a principled synthesis of research, that q…
The impact of participation in extra-curricular physical activity on males from disadvantaged schools
Extra-curricular physical activity (ECPA) may have an important role to play in the health and well-being of adolescents, but the actual benefits are relatively unknown. This study examined ECPA participation amongst adolescent males (age 12–15 years) from disadvantaged backgrounds, and evaluated its impact on overall physical activity (PA) accumulation and psychological well-being. At three time points over a single academic year, participants f…
Bird Identification as a Family of Activities
Whereas Engeström has suggested that Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) approach bird identification as an unusual type of dispersed “wildfire” activity, we argue that bird identification represents a durable family of cultural practices that have been shaped by multiple sociohistoric motives and that share key mediating artifacts (e.g., field guides, specialized optical equipment, scientific classifications). In this article, we sketch a…
Multimodal Genre Systems in EAP Writing Pedagogy
This article reports on a genre‐based needs analysis for a graduate course in English for academic purposes (EAP) at a large public U.S. university. In particular, it describes the theoretical reconceptualizations of genre analysis that the data provoked. Using ethnographic methods, an investigation of academic genres in several classrooms in three academic disciplines (civil and environmental engineering, architecture, and music) found three com…
I’ll be the sun
Discussions of reported speech have increasingly attended to mode, both the mode of the utterance represented and the mode of delivery. In this article, we argue for a more expansive engagement with multimodality, a view already signaled in the theories of Goffman, Clark, Hanks, and Irvine. We first propose shifting the unit of analysis from linguistic or discourse representation to semiotic remediation practices , a notion that attends to the di…
What Writing Does and How It Does It
Every day we encounter texts that hold together words, drawings, colors, charts, photographs, animations, sound, video, and so on; sometimes these texts are a single page or screen, and sometimes we have to navigate through many pages or screens to gain sense of what the texts’ creators hope to achieve. This chapter offers a rhetorical approach (using both textual and contextual analysis, as Jack Selzer describes in his chapter on rhetorical anal…
What Writing Does and How It Does It
Literate Activity and Disciplinarity
Taking up a sociohistoric approach to writing as literate activity in functional systems and to disciplines as dynamic heterogeneous networks, I examine writing in graduate education as a key arena of disciplinary enculturation. Through an ethnographic analysis centered on the literate activity of students and a professor in an American Studies seminar, I work to integrate participants' situated activity around a field research and writing task w…
Tracing Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Discourses
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Multimodal Genre Systems in EAP Writing Pedagogy
This article reports on a genre‐based needs analysis for a graduate course in English for academic purposes (EAP) at a large public U.S. university. In particular, it describes the theoretical reconceptualizations of genre analysis that the data provoked. Using ethnographic methods, an investigation of academic genres in several classrooms in three academic disciplines (civil and environmental engineering, architecture, and music) found three com…
Tracing Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Discourses
Preview this article: Tracing Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Discourses: A Case Study of Response, Revision, and Disciplinary Enculturation, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/rte/29/3/researchintheteachingofenglish15343-1.gif
Literate Activity and Disciplinarity
Taking up a sociohistoric approach to writing as literate activity in functional systems and to disciplines as dynamic heterogeneous networks, I examine writing in graduate education as a key arena of disciplinary enculturation. Through an ethnographic analysis centered on the literate activity of students and a professor in an American Studies seminar, I work to integrate participants' situated activity around a field research and writing task w…
What Writing Does and How It Does It
Every day we encounter texts that hold together words, drawings, colors, charts, photographs, animations, sound, video, and so on; sometimes these texts are a single page or screen, and sometimes we have to navigate through many pages or screens to gain sense of what the texts’ creators hope to achieve. This chapter offers a rhetorical approach (using both textual and contextual analysis, as Jack Selzer describes in his chapter on rhetorical anal…
What Writing Does and How It Does It
I’ll be the sun
Discussions of reported speech have increasingly attended to mode, both the mode of the utterance represented and the mode of delivery. In this article, we argue for a more expansive engagement with multimodality, a view already signaled in the theories of Goffman, Clark, Hanks, and Irvine. We first propose shifting the unit of analysis from linguistic or discourse representation to semiotic remediation practices , a notion that attends to the di…
Multimodal Genre Systems in EAP Writing Pedagogy
This article reports on a genre‐based needs analysis for a graduate course in English for academic purposes (EAP) at a large public U.S. university. In particular, it describes the theoretical reconceptualizations of genre analysis that the data provoked. Using ethnographic methods, an investigation of academic genres in several classrooms in three academic disciplines (civil and environmental engineering, architecture, and music) found three com…
Bird Identification as a Family of Activities
Whereas Engeström has suggested that Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) approach bird identification as an unusual type of dispersed “wildfire” activity, we argue that bird identification represents a durable family of cultural practices that have been shaped by multiple sociohistoric motives and that share key mediating artifacts (e.g., field guides, specialized optical equipment, scientific classifications). In this article, we sketch a…
The impact of participation in extra-curricular physical activity on males from disadvantaged schools
Extra-curricular physical activity (ECPA) may have an important role to play in the health and well-being of adolescents, but the actual benefits are relatively unknown. This study examined ECPA participation amongst adolescent males (age 12–15 years) from disadvantaged backgrounds, and evaluated its impact on overall physical activity (PA) accumulation and psychological well-being. At three time points over a single academic year, participants f…
Forum
I am writing in response to the recent Forum essay “Taking the Long View on Writing Development,” authored by Bazerman, Applebee, Berninger, Brandt, Graham, Matsuda, Murphy, Rowe, and Schleppegrell (2017; and hereafter “The Long View”). I argue that “The Long View” was driven by the aim of identifying consensus rather than working through difference, that the principles represent commonplaces rather than a principled synthesis of research, that q…
A Flat CHAT perspective on transliteracies development
Examining two longitudinal cases of writing development, we argue for a Flat CHAT (cultural-historical activity theory) perspective on transliteracies development that focuses attention on laminated assemblage—how times, spaces, artifacts, and people converge in complex and unfolding trajectories of becoming. The first case focuses on Nora, a post-doctorate biologist working on the behavioral neuroendocrinology of birds' sociality. Based on life-…
Rearticulating theory and methodology for perezhivanie and becoming
Taking up Lemke’s (2000) critical questions of how moments add up to lives and social life, we articulate theoretical and methodological frameworks for perezhivanie and becoming, challenging binaries that splinter entangled flows of perezhivanie into frozen categories. Working from a flat CHAT notion of assemblage to develop an ontology of moments, we stress consequentiality, arguing it emerges in intersections of embodied intensities (not only a…
Bazerman, Charles
Charles Bazerman's foundational contributions to the interdisciplinary field of writing and literacy studies have had a wide influence in applied linguistics. As a writing researcher, rhetorician, and literacy theorist, he is particularly known for his contributions to genre theory, the rhetoric of science and technology, writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines (WAC/WID), and theories of literate practice as social action.
Considering multimodal conversation analysis from a flat, intra-active perspective on situated, historical, embodied semiosis
Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Semiotics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Discipline (3 works)