Activity Theory and Composition David R. Russell Iowa State University

BIBLIOGRAPHY

General Introductions to Activity Theory

Bazerman, Charles, and Russell, David, eds. Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives. Perspectives on Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse. and Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2002. http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/

Cole, M. Cultural Psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Engeström, Yrjö. “Developmental Studies of Work As a Test Bench of Activity Theory: The Case of Primary Care Medical Practice.” In Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context. Ed. Seth Chaiklin and Jean Lave. New York: Cambridge U P, 1993.

Engeström, Yrjö.  Learning by Expanding. Helsinki: Orienta-Konsultit Oy, 1987. http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/Engeström/expanding/toc.htm

Leont’ev, A. N.  Problems of the Development of Mind.  Moscow: Progress, 1981.

Wertsch, James V., ed. The Concept of Activity in Soviet Psychology. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1979.

Activity Theory in Composition and Writing Studies

Diaz, Patrick X., Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway, and Anthony Paré. Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Settings. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1999.

Prior, Paul. Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in The Academy. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (c. 1998). 

Purves, Alan C., and William C. Purves.  “Viewpoints:  Cultures, Text Models, and the Activity of Writing.” Research in the Teaching of English 20 (1986): 174-96. 

Russell, David R. "Activity Theory and Its Implications for Writing Instruction."  In Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Ed. Joseph Petraglia. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995.

Russell , David R. and Arturo Yañez.  'Big Picture People Rarely Become Historians': Genre Systems and the Contradictions of General Education. In Bazerman, Charles, and Russell, David, eds. Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives. Perspectives on Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse. and Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2002. http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ pp. 331-362

Winsor, Dorothy A. Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

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