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Early research and units of analysis Writing, Literate Activity, Semiotic Remediation: A Sociocultural Approach
Pilot 1 (Curriculum Studies Seminar)—a focus on texts and on professor’s task representations. Pilot 2 (Language Education Seminar)—field notes on seminar and a focus on student and professor task representations. (Prior, 1991, Written Communication)
Paul Prior Professor, Center for Writing Studies and English Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/pprior/Prior/home.html
Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Approach to Literate Activity in the Academy
Dissertation (Seminars in sociology, geography, American Studies, and Agricultural Economics)— audiotaping of seminars, stronger focus on student work across contexts, and on histories. (Multiple publications, including Writing/Disciplinarity)
literate activity When seen as situated activity, writing does not stand alone as the discrete act of a writer, but emerges as a confluence of many streams of activity: reading, talking, observing, acting, making, thinking and feeling as well as transcribing words on paper [screen, or any other media]. —Prior, 1998, p.xi
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