>Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:54:25 -0800 (PST) >From: Charles Bazerman <[log in to unmask]> >To: Richard Coe <[log in to unmask]> >cc: David Russell <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP--Writing: Activity and Interactivity--2nd Call (fwd) > >SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT >Call for Proposals >Please cross-post to relevant lists. > >Writing: Activity and Interactivity >A Collection of Research and Theory Articles > PROPOSALS DUE JANUARY 4, 1999 > FULL ESSAYS DUE TWELVE MONTHS LATER > (see end of post for details) > > >Editors: Charles Bazerman and David Russell > > The importance of activity-oriented cultural, historical, and >social approaches for understanding how and why people write, the form >their writing takes, and the consequentiality of their texts is becoming >generally evident. These approaches, inspired by Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and >Soviet activity theorists as well by more recent approaches to situated >activity and situated cognition and structurational approaches to social >organization, have raised a range of issues for understanding writing: >human motive, social interaction and text form, production and >circulation, the organization of human endeavors, the production and use >of knowledge, the textual operations of social institutions, and >consciousness developing in participation in these emergent socio-textual >activities. > > We are soliciting new, previously unpublished essays that grow out >of substantial empirical and theoretical research projects that will carry >forward out understanding of how writing mediates human interaction, how >writing itself is a form of activity, how writing is shaped in typified >forms or genres and carries out localized action within these typified >forms, and similar issues. We are interested in articles that address all >levels of writing, including emergent writing impulses in young children, >writing in all levels of schooling and professional training, professional >and workplace writing, writing within play and leisure activities, writing >mediating the different spheres of public and private activity, and >writing in all media of production and dissemination, especially including >electronic environments. > > While the scope of this collection will be much broader than the >special issue of Mind, Culture and Activity 4:4 (1997) on The Activity of >Writing/The Writing of Activity, that issue may suggest the length, focus, >and weight of the articles we are looking for. > > In order to help us evaluate submissions we would like detailed >proposals of five hundred to a thousand words clearly identifying the >empirical basis, theoretical argument, and tentative conclusions of the >proposed chapter. The deadline for proposals will be January 4, 1999. >Completed manuscripts of around 8000 words will be due twelve months later >in January 2000. > >Feel free to contact us with preliminary inquiries. >Please submit proposals (in either paper or electronic form) to > >Charles Bazerman >English Department >University of California. >Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA >[log in to unmask] > >or > >David Russell >English Department >Iowa State University >Ames, Iowa 50011 USA >[log in to unmask] > >