Charles Bazerman

Charles Bazerman (born 1945) is an American educator and scholar. He was born and raised in New York. He has contributed significantly to the establishment of writing as a research field. Best known for his work on genre studies and the rhetoric of science, he is a Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also served as Chair of the Program in Education for eight years.[1] He served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, delivering the 2009 CCCC Chair's Address, "The Wonders of Writing," in San Francisco, California.[2][3] He is the author of over 18 books, including Shaping Written Knowledge, Constructing Experiences, The Languages of Edison’s Light, A Theory of Literate Action, and a Rhetoric of Literate Action. He also edited over 20 volumes, including Textual Dynamics of the Profession, Writing Selves/Writing Societies, What Writing Does and How it Does It, as well as the Handbook of Research on Writing and the two series Rhetoric, Knowledge and Society and Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition. He also wrote textbooks supporting the integration of reading and writing that have appeared in over 30 editions and versions including The informed writer: Using sources in the disciplines, The Informed Reader, and the English Skills Handbook.

Charles Bazerman
Born (1945-06-30) June 30, 1945
New York, United States
Alma materB.A. Cornell University, Ph.D. Brandeis University
Spouse(s)Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Awards2018 James R. Squire Award from the National Council of Teachers of English; 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar Award.
Scientific career
FieldsGenre studies, rhetoric of science, development of writing abilities
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Doctoral advisorJ.V. Cunningham

Dr. Bazerman is also the 2018 recipient of the James R. Squire Award in recognition of outstanding service to the profession of education.[4] The award was granted as part of the annual National Council of Teachers of English Convention.[5]

Academic career

Bazerman did his undergraduate work at Cornell University (B.A. 1967), and earned a Ph.D. in English and American Literature at Brandeis University in 1971. He has taught at Baruch College, City University of New York from 1972 to 1990, becoming a full professor in 1985. He was professor of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1994. In 1994 he joined the English faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and in 1997 he became a Professor of Education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also served as chair of the program in education from 2000 to 2006. He has also taught at Cornell University, the National University of Singapore, Universidade Federale de Pernambuco, and PS93K elementary school in Brooklyn. His work has been translated into Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish, and Chinese.

Writing across the curriculum

Writing across the curriculum (WAC) is a movement within contemporary composition studies that concerns itself with writing in classes outside of composition, literature, and other English courses. According to the most recent comprehensive survey, performed in 2006–2007, approximately half of American institutes of higher learning have something that can be identified as a WAC program.[1]

This page principally concerns itself with WAC in American colleges and universities. WAC has also been important in Britain, but primarily at the K-12 level.

Leadership roles

Bazerman is the founding organizer of the Research Network Forum,[6] a forum for early career scholars and graduate students that has been held annually since 1987 at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition, and the Rhetoricians for Peace. In 2011, Bazerman became the Inaugural Chair of the International Society of the Advancement of Writing Research, which holds conferences on writing research around the world.[7]

Bibliography

Primary works
  • Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (1988)
  • Bazerman, Charles. "Reporting the Experiment: The Changing Account of Scientific Doings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665-1800." In Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies. Ed. Randy Allen Harris. Mahwah: Hermagoras Press, 1997.
  • Constructing experience, SIU Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8093-1906-0
  • The Languages of Edison's Light, MIT Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-262-52326-4
  • The informed writer: using sources in the disciplines, Houghton Mifflin, 1995, ISBN 978-0-395-68723-9

Edited collections

References
  1. "Welcome | Charles Bazerman". bazerman.education.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. Jerz, Dennis G. (2009-03-12). "Charles Bazerman, The Wonder of Writing (Chair's Address) CCCC 2009". Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999). Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-18. Retrieved 2010-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "James R. Squire Award". ncte.org/awards/james-r-squire-award. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  5. "Charles Bazerman wins NCTE award given to a professor who has had a transforming influence on the teaching of English". GEVIRTZ SCHOOL IN THE NEWS. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  6. Gorelick, Risa. (2017). “The Missing Piece: Where is the Labor-Related Research at the Research Network Forum?” In Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein and Michael A. Pemberton (eds.) The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition. Parlor Press. pp. 115-125.
  7. "ISAWR Home". Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
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