International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures

Edited by Charles Bazerman, Chris Dean, Jessica Early, Karen Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell
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Cover The thirty chapters in this edited collection were selected from the more than 500 presentations at the Writing Research Across Borders II Conference in 2011. With representatives from more than forty countries, this conference gave rise to the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research. The chapters selected for this collection represent cutting edge research on writing from all regions, organized around three themes—cultures, places, and measures. The authors report research that considers writing in all levels of schooling, in science, in the public sphere, and in the workplace, as well as at the relationship among these various places of writing. The authors also consider the cultures of writing—among them national cultures, gender cultures, schooling cultures, scientific cultures, and cultures of the workplace. Finally, the chapters examine various ways of measuring writing and how these measures interact with practices of teaching and learning.

About the Editors

Charles Bazerman, Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of numerous research articles and books on the social role of writing, academic genres, and textual analysis, as well as textbooks on the teaching of writing.

Chris Dean has recently co-authored a writing textbook, Terra Incognita: Researching the Weird, and is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jessica Singer Early is an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. She is author of Opening the Gates: Creating Real World Writing Opportunities for Diverse Secondary Students and Stirring up Justice: Reading and Writing to Change the World.

Karen Lunsford is an associate professor of Writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published on a wide range of interests, including multimodality, science writing, and policy issues that affect writing research.

Suzie Null is an assistant professor of Teacher Education at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Her publications include the co-edited collection, Traditions of Writing Research.

Paul Rogers is an assistant professor of English at George Mason University and served as co-chair of the Writing Research Across Borders II conference. His publications include the co-edited collections, Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook and Traditions of Writing Research.

Amanda Stansell teaches Writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Lecturer. Her publications include the co-edited collection, Traditions of Writing Research.

Publication Information: Bazerman, Charles, Dean, Chris, Early, Jessica, Lunsford, Karen, Null, Suzie, Rogers, Paul, and Stansell, Amanda (Eds.). (2012). International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures. Perspectives on Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press. Available at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/wrab2011/

Publication Date: July 8, 2012

Contact Information:
Charles Bazerman: bazerman@education.ucsb.edu

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