Charles Bazerman was born on 1945 and is an American educator and scholar.
14 Facts About Charles Bazerman
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Charles Bazerman has contributed significantly to the establishment of writing as a research field, as evidenced by the collection of essays written by international scholars in Writing as A Human Activity: Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman.
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Charles Bazerman 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.
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Charles Bazerman 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.
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Charles Bazerman has taught at Baruch College, City University of New York from 1972 to 1990, becoming a full professor in 1985.
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Charles Bazerman was professor of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1994.
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Charles Bazerman has taught at Cornell University, the National University of Singapore, Universidade Federale de Pernambuco, University of the Lorraine, Masaryk University, China University of Geosciences, University of Porto, and PS93K elementary school in Brooklyn.
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Charles Bazerman's work has been translated into Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish, and Chinese.
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Charles Bazerman's work has won numerous awards, including two lifetime achievement awards, the 2018 James R Squire Award from the National Council of Teachers of English and the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar Award.
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Charles Bazerman later elaborated theoretical ideas in several chapters on genre systems, typification and originality, concepts in activity, and the social origins of genres in letter writing.
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Charles Bazerman fostered work of other scholars on activity through co-editing a number of volumes with David Russell.
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Charles Bazerman consequently studied how writing and reading practices influenced growth of thinking in students.
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Charles Bazerman is a founding organizer of the Research Network Forum, a forum for early career scholars and graduate students that has been held annually since 1987 at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition, and the Rhetoricians for Peace.
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In 2011, Charles Bazerman became the Inaugural Chair of the International Society of the Advancement of Writing Research, which holds conferences on writing research around the world.