C Bazerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 8160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Bazerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bazerman |
| SIGNATURE | BAZERMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6849-4367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Finding Problems: Before Gathering and Analyzing Data
Finding a research problem is the first and most consequential choice a researcher can make, but making this choice about what is not yet known can leave the researcher in a hazy world of uncertainty until the project takes shape. While each person needs to find their own path through the haze, I have found that four kinds of questions help me locate and design a useful research project: what is in front of me; how I add up what I and others have…
Ethical Poetry of Academic Writing
Este texto baseia‐se na conferência intitulada “Facing academic writing and finding the poetry in it” e apresentada no seminário “Os desafios éticos da escrita” organizado pela Vice‐Reitoria da Formação e Organização Académica e pelo Conselho Geral da Universidade do Porto que decorreu no dia 25 de maio de 2016
CCCC Exemplar Award Acceptance Remarks
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Forum: Taking the Long View on Writing Development
Studies on writing development have grown in diversity and depth in recent decades, but remain fragmented along lines of theory, method, and age ranges or populations studied. Meaningful, competent writing performances that meet the demands of the moment rely on many kinds of well-practiced and deeply understood capacities working together; however, these capacities’ realization and developmental trajectories can vary from one individual to anoth…
Student Writing and Writing Education in National Contexts: Continuing a Dialogue
Textos são relações sociais, são escritos em momentos e circunstâncias específicos e lidos em momentos e circunstâncias específicos, realizando, assim, interações sociais concretas. Como tal, a instrução para a leitura varia de páis para país e de sistema de ensino para sistema de ensino, com base na história local ena configuração das instituições. A hist'roia insitucional, social e ideológica da escrita na escolarização norte-americana fez surg…
Genre as social action
Discourse arises among people, in interaction, and it is part of the means by which people accomplish social actions. Meanings arise within the pragmatic unfolding of events and mediate the alignment of participants to perceptions of immediate situations and relevant contexts (whether fictive or non-fictive) called to mind by language. Language is crafted, deployed, and interpreted by individuals in the course of social participation, even when i…
Domain-specific cognitive development through written genres in a teacher education program
Previous studies of initiatives in Writing to Learn and Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, while showing gains in knowledge retention and improvement in general writing skills, have not yet investigated the more fundamental issue of how writing supports development of domain-specific forms of thinking. Written samples were gathered from prospective teachers engaged in a year-long program of classroom observation and partici…
Analyzing the Multidimensionality of Texts in Education
Writing with Concepts: Communal, Internalized, and Externalized
From the perspective of writing concepts are most readily identified through conceptual words deployed by writers to evoke conceptual meanings in readers. Although every word has some conceptual weight, this article focuses on words associated with core ideas or classifications or connections of domains of thought—the kinds of terms attended to in the history of ideas that are at the forefront of discussions in disciplines and that undergraduates…
The orders of documents, the orders of activity, and the orders of information
Electrons Are Cheap; Society Is Dear
The most visible impacts of new communicative technologies are in the attention-grabbing and expressive potential of greater design control at the desktop, hypertext, and multimedia (graphics, animation, video, sound, hap-tics, and ultimately immersive virtual and augmented reality). Nonetheless, the most significant impacts of new communicative technologies are likely to be in the changing activities and communities facilitated by new potentials…
Standpoints: The Disciplined Interdisciplinarity of Writing Studies
Charles Bazerman reminds us of the complexity of writing. He describes his own journey of disciplined study of writing as one that has necessarily been interdisciplinary, or more precisely, that has involved a series of different disciplinary engagements, each of which is aimed at illuminating some dimension of literate activity and its social consequences
Scientific knowledge, public knowledge, and public policy: Genred formation and disruption of knowledge for acting about global warming
Knowledge is produced, stored and accessed in specific genres associated with different activity systems. Coordinated action among diverse groups is facilitated by alignment of knowledge across spheres. Our knowledge of the environment has been created in recent history by the interaction of discourses in military, scientific, public, political, corporate and governmental spheres, although these spheres do not always work in concert and there exi…
Anxiety in Action: Sullivan's Interpersonal Psychiatry as a Supplement to Vygotskian Psychology
Psychiatric issues such as the formation of intimate bonds, personality, anxiety, and antisocial behavior tend to have little place in Vygotskian and neo-Vygotskian studies, giving the impression that all humans are competent and cooperative participants in social interaction. Nonetheless, Vygotsky himself was interested in psychiatric issues and contributed to psychiatric practice. Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal psychiatry is compatible wi…
The Languages of Edison's Light
Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (Book)
1998). Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (Book) Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 73-75
Minding Words
Discursively Structured Activities
Talk helps organize the activities it is part of; people maintain regularity of activity through the typification of talk. Similarly, the recognizable similarity among written texts (i.e., recognition of genre) helps maintain social and cognitive structure within activities producing or using those genres. Enduring written texts and systems of texts provide a conservative, reproductive force on local activities. Events are particularly held accou…
Cognition in the Wild (Book)
1996). Cognition in the Wild (Book) Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 46-63
Linguistic Anthropology: Cooperating with Written Texts: The Pragmatics and Comprehension of Written Texts . Dieter Stein , ed
Forums of Validation and Forms of Knowledge: The Magical Rhetoric of Otto von Guericke's Sulfer Globe
Configurations - Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1993
Complex Dynamics: Literature, Science, and Postdisciplinarity
A wager: postdisciplinarity will be to the 1990s what deconstruction was to the 1980s. This bet will, no doubt, offer scant comfort to those who thought it was safe to go back into the classroom, that historynew, old, or repackaged-had re-emerged to provide a basis from which to hold forth on Milton, Blake, Shelley, and other canonical figures. Postdisciplinarity has not yet caught on as a catchphrase nor sharply etched itself on the collective c…
Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice
Introduction: Rhetoricians on the Rhetoric of Science
Readers of this journal need no reminder that the rhetoric of scientific writing has become an important research site in the sociology of science, largely motivated by constructivist, strong program, and ethnomethodological concerns. Although the use of the term rhetoric relies on a residual communal memory of an ancient branch of knowledge, in the sociological literature, rhetoric as a term and as an analytic method has been treated as a late-t…
Modern Evolution of the Experimental Report in Physics: Spectroscopic Articles in Physical Review, 1893-1980
Recent studies of scientific texts need to be set against the history of the genre, which in part establishes the institutional framework within which any individual text is created. The definition of the appropriate form of communication is part of how a discipline constitutes itself, and is part of the achievement of that discipline. This paper examines the changing features of spectroscopic articles in Physical Review since its founding. Analy…
What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse
Knowledge produced by the academy is cast primarily in written language—now usually a national language augmented by mathematical and other specialized international notations. This chapter continues the investigation of knowledge-bearing texts, but from a different vantage point. It ranges beyond the scientific paper to examine knowledge-bearing texts in other disciplines in order to explore the possibilities of variation in what constitutes a s…
Modern Evolution of the Experimental Report in Physics: Spectroscopic Articles in Physical Review, 1893-1980
Recent studies of scientific texts need to be set against the history of the genre, which in part establishes the institutional framework within which any individual text is created. The definition of the appropriate form of communication is part of how a discipline constitutes itself, and is part of the achievement of that discipline. This paper examines the changing features of spectroscopic articles in Physical Review since its founding. Analy…
The orders of documents, the orders of activity, and the orders of information
Introduction: Rhetoricians on the Rhetoric of Science
Readers of this journal need no reminder that the rhetoric of scientific writing has become an important research site in the sociology of science, largely motivated by constructivist, strong program, and ethnomethodological concerns. Although the use of the term rhetoric relies on a residual communal memory of an ancient branch of knowledge, in the sociological literature, rhetoric as a term and as an analytic method has been treated as a late-t…
Cognition in the Wild (Book)
1996). Cognition in the Wild (Book) Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 46-63
Forums of Validation and Forms of Knowledge: The Magical Rhetoric of Otto von Guericke's Sulfer Globe
Configurations - Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1993
Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice
Open access book publishing in writing studies: A case study
The publication of scholarly books has been shaped strongly in recent decades by two factors: assessments by publishers of the potential market for books and the influence of publisher's reputations on tenure and promotion decisions. This article reflects on the choices made by a group of senior scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric as they conceived of and published an open access book on activity theory and writing and, subsequently…
What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse
Knowledge produced by the academy is cast primarily in written language—now usually a national language augmented by mathematical and other specialized international notations. This chapter continues the investigation of knowledge-bearing texts, but from a different vantage point. It ranges beyond the scientific paper to examine knowledge-bearing texts in other disciplines in order to explore the possibilities of variation in what constitutes a s…
Modern Evolution of the Experimental Report in Physics: Spectroscopic Articles in Physical Review, 1893-1980
Recent studies of scientific texts need to be set against the history of the genre, which in part establishes the institutional framework within which any individual text is created. The definition of the appropriate form of communication is part of how a discipline constitutes itself, and is part of the achievement of that discipline. This paper examines the changing features of spectroscopic articles in Physical Review since its founding. Analy…
Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice
Introduction: Rhetoricians on the Rhetoric of Science
Readers of this journal need no reminder that the rhetoric of scientific writing has become an important research site in the sociology of science, largely motivated by constructivist, strong program, and ethnomethodological concerns. Although the use of the term rhetoric relies on a residual communal memory of an ancient branch of knowledge, in the sociological literature, rhetoric as a term and as an analytic method has been treated as a late-t…
Complex Dynamics: Literature, Science, and Postdisciplinarity
A wager: postdisciplinarity will be to the 1990s what deconstruction was to the 1980s. This bet will, no doubt, offer scant comfort to those who thought it was safe to go back into the classroom, that historynew, old, or repackaged-had re-emerged to provide a basis from which to hold forth on Milton, Blake, Shelley, and other canonical figures. Postdisciplinarity has not yet caught on as a catchphrase nor sharply etched itself on the collective c…
Linguistic Anthropology: Cooperating with Written Texts: The Pragmatics and Comprehension of Written Texts . Dieter Stein , ed
Forums of Validation and Forms of Knowledge: The Magical Rhetoric of Otto von Guericke's Sulfer Globe
Configurations - Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1993
Cognition in the Wild (Book)
1996). Cognition in the Wild (Book) Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 46-63
Minding Words
Discursively Structured Activities
Talk helps organize the activities it is part of; people maintain regularity of activity through the typification of talk. Similarly, the recognizable similarity among written texts (i.e., recognition of genre) helps maintain social and cognitive structure within activities producing or using those genres. Enduring written texts and systems of texts provide a conservative, reproductive force on local activities. Events are particularly held accou…
Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (Book)
1998). Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (Book) Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 73-75
Anxiety in Action: Sullivan's Interpersonal Psychiatry as a Supplement to Vygotskian Psychology
Psychiatric issues such as the formation of intimate bonds, personality, anxiety, and antisocial behavior tend to have little place in Vygotskian and neo-Vygotskian studies, giving the impression that all humans are competent and cooperative participants in social interaction. Nonetheless, Vygotsky himself was interested in psychiatric issues and contributed to psychiatric practice. Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal psychiatry is compatible wi…
The Languages of Edison's Light
Scientific knowledge, public knowledge, and public policy: Genred formation and disruption of knowledge for acting about global warming
Knowledge is produced, stored and accessed in specific genres associated with different activity systems. Coordinated action among diverse groups is facilitated by alignment of knowledge across spheres. Our knowledge of the environment has been created in recent history by the interaction of discourses in military, scientific, public, political, corporate and governmental spheres, although these spheres do not always work in concert and there exi…
Electrons Are Cheap; Society Is Dear
The most visible impacts of new communicative technologies are in the attention-grabbing and expressive potential of greater design control at the desktop, hypertext, and multimedia (graphics, animation, video, sound, hap-tics, and ultimately immersive virtual and augmented reality). Nonetheless, the most significant impacts of new communicative technologies are likely to be in the changing activities and communities facilitated by new potentials…
Standpoints: The Disciplined Interdisciplinarity of Writing Studies
Charles Bazerman reminds us of the complexity of writing. He describes his own journey of disciplined study of writing as one that has necessarily been interdisciplinary, or more precisely, that has involved a series of different disciplinary engagements, each of which is aimed at illuminating some dimension of literate activity and its social consequences
Analyzing the Multidimensionality of Texts in Education
Writing with Concepts: Communal, Internalized, and Externalized
From the perspective of writing concepts are most readily identified through conceptual words deployed by writers to evoke conceptual meanings in readers. Although every word has some conceptual weight, this article focuses on words associated with core ideas or classifications or connections of domains of thought—the kinds of terms attended to in the history of ideas that are at the forefront of discussions in disciplines and that undergraduates…
The orders of documents, the orders of activity, and the orders of information
Domain-specific cognitive development through written genres in a teacher education program
Previous studies of initiatives in Writing to Learn and Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, while showing gains in knowledge retention and improvement in general writing skills, have not yet investigated the more fundamental issue of how writing supports development of domain-specific forms of thinking. Written samples were gathered from prospective teachers engaged in a year-long program of classroom observation and partici…
Genre as social action
Discourse arises among people, in interaction, and it is part of the means by which people accomplish social actions. Meanings arise within the pragmatic unfolding of events and mediate the alignment of participants to perceptions of immediate situations and relevant contexts (whether fictive or non-fictive) called to mind by language. Language is crafted, deployed, and interpreted by individuals in the course of social participation, even when i…
Forum: Taking the Long View on Writing Development
Studies on writing development have grown in diversity and depth in recent decades, but remain fragmented along lines of theory, method, and age ranges or populations studied. Meaningful, competent writing performances that meet the demands of the moment rely on many kinds of well-practiced and deeply understood capacities working together; however, these capacities’ realization and developmental trajectories can vary from one individual to anoth…
Student Writing and Writing Education in National Contexts: Continuing a Dialogue
Textos são relações sociais, são escritos em momentos e circunstâncias específicos e lidos em momentos e circunstâncias específicos, realizando, assim, interações sociais concretas. Como tal, a instrução para a leitura varia de páis para país e de sistema de ensino para sistema de ensino, com base na história local ena configuração das instituições. A hist'roia insitucional, social e ideológica da escrita na escolarização norte-americana fez surg…
Ethical Poetry of Academic Writing
Este texto baseia‐se na conferência intitulada “Facing academic writing and finding the poetry in it” e apresentada no seminário “Os desafios éticos da escrita” organizado pela Vice‐Reitoria da Formação e Organização Académica e pelo Conselho Geral da Universidade do Porto que decorreu no dia 25 de maio de 2016
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