Professor Bazerman's commitment to literacy and the teaching of writing started thirty years ago when he was teaching first and third grade in inner-city Brooklyn. He saw concretely how learning to read and write changed the dispositions and bearing of individual children, made possible a successful relationship to schooling, and improved life chances. He also saw the effects of children on entering the world of literacy. A few years later, after he finished his degree and began teaching at City University of New York during the early years of open admissions, he found professional satisfaction in helping students enter into the literate discussion of the university. Professor Bazerman's research and pedagogic interests started from the teaching of writing to encompass the ways we make use of reading in our writing and then the ways in which academic writing is organized around the literatures of the several disciplines.
For more information visit
Professor Bazerman's Education department webpage.
