Higher education writing studies in latin america

Charles Bazerman; Maria Ester Wollstein Moritz

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n3p9

Authors

Charles Bazerman University of California Santa Barbara
Maria Ester Wollstein Moritz Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n3p9

Abstract

Higher education writing studies in latin america

Author Biographies

Charles Bazerman, University of California Santa Barbara

Professor of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara, Steering Committee Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research, and recent chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. His books include A Rhetoric of Literate Action, A Theory of Literate Action, The Languages of Edison's Light, Constructing Experience, Shaping Written Knowledge, The Informed Writer, and The Handbook of Research on Writing. Several volumes of his essays have been translated into Portuguese and Spanish, and he has worked with campuses throughout Latin America.

Maria Ester Wollstein Moritz, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in the Department of Foreign Language and Literature. Her research interests include: Writing studies, textual genres, contrastive rhetoric, English and systemic-funcional grammar.