This article reviews a tradition of North American research on writing in higher education
and workplaces that draws on cultural-historical activity approaches. Growing out of college …

… For an overview and a brief discussion of the differences, see Russell (in press). North
American genre research has recently begun to use activity theory (Diaz, Freedman, Medway, & …

Degenerate PCR primers were designed to anneal to highly conserved nucleotide sequences
identified in the genomes of 10 whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses. The PCR primers were …

… Russell's Writing in the Academic Disciplines is like studying an intellectual family tree. By
tracing the genealogy of writing in the disciplines, Russell … Russell makes clear that we did not …

Since the required course in freshman composition was conceived at Harvard in 1885 and
quickly adopted by most uS colleges and universities, it has been at the heart of a continuing …

… , can be seen as ways of coordinating joint activity and regulating thought (Russell, 1997;
Bazerman, this volume). For Bazerman and Russell (2003), as the signs on a page mediate …

In this chapter, I first outline some basic principles of activity theory and then explore some
ways it has proved valuable for analysing distributed learning, in both schooling and …

… However, like most such programs, these dissolved when the number of participating
departments dwindled so as to make the programs unworkable (Russell, "Writing"). In the face of …

… Glycan composition data and Western blot analyses are consistent with the presence of
plant-specific fucose and xylose at the N-linked glycosylation site (DA Russell, personal …

Background. Decreases in immune responsiveness with age contribute to the increased
incidence and severity of infectious disease among elderly adults. The immune response to …