Writing at Work

Books and articles on writing at work and in professional communities
Bazerman, C. and Paradis, J. eds. (1991). Textual Dynamics of the Professions. University of Wisconsin Press.

Bargiella-Chiappini, F. and Nickerson, C. (1999). Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses. Pearson.

Belfiore, M.E., Defoe, T.A., Folinsbee, J.H. and Jackson, N.S. (2004). Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dias, P, Freedman, A., Medway, P. and Pare, A. eds. (1999). Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts. Mahwah, NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dias, P. and Pare, A. eds. (2000). Transitions. Writing in Academic and Workplace Settings. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Garay, M.S. and Bernhardt, S. eds. (1998). Expanding Literacies: English Teaching and the New Workplace. Albany: SUNY Press.

Gee, J.P., Hull, G. and Lankshear, C. eds. (1996). The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism. Westview Press.

Gunnarson, B-L., Linell, P. and Nordberg, B. (1997). The Construction of Professional Discourse. Longman.

Hull, G. ed. (1997). Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills. Albany: SUNY Press.

O'Barr, W. (1982). Linguistic Evidence: Language, Power and Strategy in the Courtroom. New York: Academic Press.

O'Dell and Goswami eds. (1985). Writing in Non-academic Settings. New York: Guilford Press).

Orlikowski, W. and Yates, J. (1994). 'Genre Repertoire: Norms and Forms for Work and Interaction'. MIT Sloan School Working Paper #3671-94. Memos and proposals in organisational communication. See here.

Pennell, M. (2007). '"If Knowledge is Power, You're About to Become Very Powerful": Literacy and Labor Market Intermediaries in Postindustrial America' in College Composition and Communication, 58:3, 345-384.

Sullivan, P. and Dautermann, J. (1996). Electronic Literacies in the Workplace: Technologies of Writing. Urbana, Il: NCTE.

Yates, J. (1989). Control through Communication: the Rise of System in American Management. John Hopkins University Press.
Rise of the memo as an organisational genre.