Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum

Charles Bazerman, Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, inquires into academic writing, the role of writing in society, and how writing forms and transforms people and societies. He is founder and former chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and former chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. His books include A Rhetoric of Literate Action; A Theory of Literate Action; The Languages of Edison's Light; Constructing Experience; Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science; The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines; the Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text; Traditions of Writing Research; Genre in a Changing World; and What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. He also has published more than 100 articles and chapters.