First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents: C. Bazerman, Editor's Introduction. Preface. Part I: Introduction. Resituating the Discourse Community: A Sociohistoric Perspective. Part II: Situated Explorations of Academic Writing Tasks. Multiple Exposures: Tracing a Microhistory of Academic Writing Tasks. Making Semiotic Genres: Topics, Contextualizations, and Literate Activity in Two Seminars. Trajectories of Participation: Two Paths to the MA. Part III: Literate Activity and Mediated Authorship. Literate Activity, Scenes of Writing, and Mediated Authorship. Images of Authorship in a Sociology Research Team. Voices in the Networks: Distributed Agency in Streams of Activity. A Microhistory of Mediated Authorship and Disciplinary Enculturation: Tracing Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Discourses. Part IV: Redrawing the Maps of Writing and Disciplinarity. Laminations of Activity: Chronotopes and Lilah. Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Approach. Appendices: Situating the Research: Multiple Exposures of a Methodology. Conventions of Data Representation.