What writing does and how it does it : an introduction to analyzing texts and textual practices / What writing does and how it does it : An introduction to analysing texts and textual practices edited by Charles Bazerman, Paul Prior. - vi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-356) and index.

Introduction / Analyzing Texts -- Content Analysis: What Texts Talk About / Poetics and Narrativity: How Texts Tell Stories / Linguistic Discourse Analysis: How the Language in Texts Works / Intertextuality: How Texts Rely on Other Texts / Code-Switching and Second Language Writing: How Multiple Codes Are Combined in a Text / The Multiple Media of Texts: How Onscreen and Paper Texts Incorporate Words, Images, and Other Media / Analyzing Textual Practices -- Tracing Process: How Texts Come Into Being / Speaking and Writing: How Talk and Text Interact in Situated Practices / Children's Writing: How Textual Forms, Contextual Forces, and Textual Politics Co-Emerge / Rhetorical Analysis: Understanding How Texts Persuade Readers / Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People / Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior -- Thomas Huckin -- Philip Eubanks -- Ellen Barton -- Charles Bazerman -- Marcia Z. Buell -- Anne Frances Wysocki -- Paul Prior -- Kevin Leander and Paul Prior -- George Kamberelis and Lenora de la Luna -- Jack Selzer -- Charles Bazerman. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

"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 that place importance on texts and textual practices, such as education, English, writing, and rhetoric."--BOOK JACKET.

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English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching
Report writing--Study and teaching
Discourse analysis.

PE1404 / .W456 2004

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