¿ Cómo se entabla la interacción discursiva entre distintas personas?¿ Cómo hablan entre
sí los miembros de diversos grupos y cómo se comunican con gente que pertenece a otros …

Power and Politeness in the Workplace has become established as a seminal text for
courses in language and professional communication. Co-authored by bestselling author …

Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in
the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical …

This article introduces the special issue on crisis communication, whose aim is to bring
together diverse approaches and methods of analysis in the field. The article overviews the …

Composition research consistently demonstrates that the social context of writing determines
the majority of conventions any writer must observe. Still, most universities organize the …

In Shaping Written Knowledge, Charles Bazerman provided extensive historical discussion
of scientific journal article, noting how textual features have changed in accordance with …

The author describes this volume as a" textography" because it combines certain elements
of both text analysis and ethnography. Through analysis of texts, textual forms, and systems …

Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at four engineering co-op
students as they write at work. Since the contributors have a foot in both worlds--work and …

Composition Studies emerged as a scholarly research discipline during the 1970s as (a)
empirical methods became available to investigate the problem of meaning in discourse …

DocuScope is a text-tagging tool developed by David Kaufer and Suguru Ishizaki at
Carnegie Mellon University (Kaufer, Ishizaki, Butler, & Collins, 2004). Although it shares …