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>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       We are soliciting new, previously unpublished essays that grow out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
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>or
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>David Russell
>English Department
>Iowa State University
>Ames, Iowa 50011 USA
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