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Bazerman, Charles 1945-

PERSONAL:

Born June 30, 1945, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Solomon (in business) and Miriam (a homemaker) Bazerman; married Shirley Geoklin Lim, November 27, 1972; children: Gershom. Ethnicity: "Academic." Education:Cornell University, B.A., 1967; Brandeis University, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971. Politics: "Too much." Hobbies and other interests: Music, swimming.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Santa Barbara, CA. Office—Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, began as assistant professor, became professor of English, 1971-90; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, professor of language, communication, and culture, 1990-94; University of California, Santa Barbara, professor of education and English, 1994—. National University of Singapore, visiting professor, 1985-86; University of Louisville, Watson Distinguished Professor, 1997; Cornell University, Knight Visiting Professor, 1999.

MEMBER:

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Charles Bazerman (born 1945) is an American educator and scholar. He was born and raised in New York. He has contributed significantly to the establishment of writing as a research field. Best known for his work on genre studies and the rhetoric of science, he is a Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also served as Chair of the Program in Education for eight years. He served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, delivering the 2009 CCCC Chair's Address, "The Wonders of Writing," in San Francisco, California.He is the author of over 18 books, including Shaping Written Knowledge, Constructing Experiences, The Languages of Edison’s Light, A Theory of Literate Action, and a Rhetoric of Literate Action. He also edited ov

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  • Charles Bazerman (born 1945) is an American educator and scholar. He was born and raised in New York. He has contributed significantly to the establishment of writing as a research field. Best known for his work on genre studies and
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    Biography and overview

    I am  interested in the practice and teaching of writing, understood in a socio-historic context. Using socially based theories of genre, activity system, interaction, intertextuality, and cognitive development, I investigate the history of scientific writing, other forms of writing used in advancing technological projects, and the relation of writing to the development of disciplines of knowledge. 

    I hope to contribute to our understanding of the importance of writing in all domains of modern life, and I hope to contribute to the teaching and learning of writing at all levels of schooling, as writing is a major medium of participating in society and developing one's life with the contemporary complex literate world. In these webpages my goal is to make accessible and available as much of my work as possible, and I grant permission for free use and reproduction as long as appropriate attribution is granted to the source.

    In a number of other editorial projects (such as the Handbook of Research on Writing  and the series of Reference Guides to Rhetoric and

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