ENGL 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Charles Bazerman, Social Presence Theory, Social Fact
23 Aug 2017
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Bazerman: writers write to participate in social situations. Writers consciously gather information about the situation: planning, consulting, gathering, selecting. Documentation: scientific citation, half life, only relevant when its new. Journalism relies on readers knowledge: writing fits into temporally changing circumstances, writing takes place in the context of prior texts, technologies influence the situation, form, and production of texts. The consequences of writing: writing builds relations with readers, through participation writers gain voice and identities within forums. Medieval letter writing: good will, respect, appropriate work relations. Distribution, graphic design, temporality of work, social circulation etc. Science: few papers make it big, but the ones that do are cited by many, many people. Voice: loudness at right time, character, quality, identity. Evaluation of appropriate voice = projects and image on the work. How writing gets done: writing processes allow planning and refinement for social effectiveness. Sense of voice becomes motive for development of writers.
