In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman
and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for
understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices.
This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts,
and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices
and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean
rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of
analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer
modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and
intertextual analysis. The chapters have been developed to provide
answers to a specified set of questions, with each one offering: *a
preview of the chapter's content and purpose; *an introduction to
basic concepts, referring to key theoretical and research studies
in the area; *details on the types of data and questions for which
the analysis is best used; *examples from a wide-ranging group of
texts, including educational materials, student writing, published
literature, and online and electronic media; *one or more applied
analyses, with a clear statement of procedures for analysis and
illustrations of a particular sample of data; and *a brief summary,
suggestions for additional readings, and a set of activities. The
side-by-side comparison of methods allows the reader to see the
multi-dimensionality of writing, facilitating selection of the best
method for a particular research question. The volume contributors
are experts from linguistics, communication studies, rhetoric,
literary analysis, document design, sociolinguistics, education,
ethnography, and cultural psychology, and each utilizes a specific
mode of text analysis. With its broad range of methodological
examples, What Writing Does and How It Does It is a unique and
invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate
students and for researchers in education, composition, ESL and
applied linguistics, communication, L1 and L2 learning, print
media, and electronic media. It will also be useful in all social
sciences and humanities that place importance on texts and textual
practices, such as English, writing, and rhetoric.
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