Bazerman Charles, Prior Paul (Editors). What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. — 365 pages. — ISBN: 0805838058, 0805838066.In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and intertextual analysis.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.