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Writing Selves Writing Societies Research from Activity Perspectives
Writing Selves Writing Societies Research from Activity Perspectives Perspectives on Writing, an Electronic Books Series Sponsored by the WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu) WAC Clearinghouse Publication Advisory Board: John Ackerman Gail E. Hawisher Anne Herrington Christine Hult Kathleen E. Kiefer Susan H. McLeod Mike Palmquist Dickie Selfe Art Young Writing Selves/Writing Societies, Bazerman & Russell http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ Published February 1, 2003 Copyright © 2003 by the Authors & Editors Writing Selves Writing Societies Research from Activity Perspectives Edited by Charles Bazerman University of California, Santa Barbara David R. Russell Iowa State University The WAC Clearinghouse Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093 Writing Selves/Writing Societies, Bazerman & Russell http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ Published February 1, 2003 Copyright © 2003 by the Authors & Editors Electronic Production: Mike Palmquist Cover and Interior Design: Mike Palmquist © 2003 by the authors and editors of this book. All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives / edited by Charles Bazerman, David R. Russell p. cm. Includes bibliographic references. ISBN 0-9727023-1-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2003100499 Writing Selves/Writing Societies, Bazerman & Russell http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ Published February 1, 2003 Copyright © 2003 by the Authors & Editors This book is dedicated to our students. Writing Selves/Writing Societies, Bazerman & Russell http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ Published February 1, 2003 Copyright © 2003 by the Authors & Editors Table of Contents Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 1 Acknowledgements......................................................................................................................... 7 A Central Bank’s “Communications Strategy”: The Interplay of Activity, Discourse Genres, and Technology in a Time of Organizational Change....................................................... 9 Structure and Agency in Medical Case Presentations .................................................................. 62 Compound Mediation in Software Development: Using Genre Ecologies to Study Textual Artifacts......................................................................................................................................... 97 When Management Becomes Personal: An Activity-Theoretic Analysis of Palm™ Technologies ............................................................................................................................... 125 Writing and the Management of Power: Producing Public Policy in New Zealand .................. 159 Chronotopic Lamination: Tracing the Contours of Literate Activity ......................................... 180 Intercultural Knowledge Building: The Literate Action of a Community Think Tank.............. 239 Participant and Institutional Identity: Self-representation Across Multiple Genres at a Catholic College....................................................................................................................... 280 Creating a Writer’s Identity on the Boundaries of Two Communities of Practice..................... 307 'Big Picture People Rarely Become Historians': Genre Systems and the Contradictions of General Education .................................................................................................................. 331 Legends of the Center: System, Self, and Linguistic Consciousness ......................................... 363 Accounting for Conflicting Mental Models of Communication in Student-Teacher Interaction: An Activity Theory Analysis................................................................................... 393 What Is Not Institutionally Visible Does Not Count: The Problem of Making Activity Assessable, Accountable, and Plannable .................................................................................... 428 Writing Selves/Writing Societies, Bazerman & Russell http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ Published February 1, 2003 Copyright © 2003 by the Authors & Editors Dissertation Writers’ Negotiations with Competing Activity Systems ...................................... 483 Abstracts ..................................................................................................................................... 515 Editors ......................................................................................................................................... 521 Contributors ................................................................................................................................ 522 Writing Selves/Writing Societies, Bazerman & Russell http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ Published February 1, 2003 Copyright © 2003 by the Authors & Editors