Textual Dynamics: Historical & Contemporary Studies Of

by Charles Bazerman, James Paradis

Overview

Textual Dynamics of the Professions is a collection of fifteen essays examining the real effects of text on professional practices—in academic, scientific, and business settings. Charles Bazerman and James Paradis describe textual dynamics as an interaction in which professional texts and discourses are constructed by, and in turn construct, social practices. In the burgeoning field of discourse theory, this anthology stands apart in its treatment of a wide range of professional texts, including case studies, student papers, medieval letters, and product instructions, and in the inclusion of authors from a variety of disciplines.
    Invaluable to the new pedagogical field of “writing across the curriculum,” Textual Dynamics of the Professions is also a significant intervention into the studies of rhetoric, writing theory, and the sociology of knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299125943
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	03/15/1991
Series:	Rhetoric of the Human Sciences
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Charles Bazerman is professor of education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of eighteen books and over twenty edited collections, including Writing Across the Curriculum and Shaping Written Knowledge. James Paradis is Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of T.H. Huxley: Man’s Place in Nature and Samuel Butler: Victorian against the Grain-A Critical Overview.