Paul A Prior

Professor, English
Director, Center for Writing Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Emailpprior@illinois.edu

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Research Interests

Writing Studies, Literate Activity, Dialogic Theory, Semiotic Practice, Applied Linguistics, Genre, CHAT and ANT.

Personal profile

Paul Prior is a Professor in English and the Center for Writing Studies and Director of the Center for Writing Studies. Working with cultural-historical activity theory, actor-network theory, and dialogic semiotics, he has explored connections among writing, talk, embodied action, learning, and disciplinarity.

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Research Output

A collaborative longitudinal design for supporting writing pedagogies of STEM faculty

Prior, P. A., Gallagher, J., Turnipseed, N., Cooper, S. L., Zilles, J., Popovics, J. S., Yoritomo, J. Y. & Elliott, C. M., 2020, In : Technical Communication Quarterly.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

A Flat CHAT perspective on transliteracies development

Smith, A. & Prior, P., Mar 2020, In : Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. 24, 100268.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Editorial: Writing across: Tracing transliteracies as becoming across time, space, and settings

Prior, P. & Smith, A., Mar 2020, In : Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. 24, 100246.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

Academic literacies as laminated assemblage and embodied semiotic becoming

Prior, P. A. & Olinger, A., 2019, Retheorizing literacy practices: Complex social and cultural contexts . Bloome, D., Castanheira, L., Leung, C. & Rowsell, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 126-139

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

A tale of two rubrics: Realigning genre instruction through improved response rubrics in a writing-intensive physics course

Yoritomo, J. Y., Turnipseed, N., Villotti, M. J., Tate, A., Searsmith, K., Perdekamp, M. G., Prior, P. & Zilles, J. L., Jun 15 2019, In : ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article

Activities

7 Editorial activity