ABSTRACT
In a 1992 essay, Thomas Huckin described what he called “context sensitive
text analysis” (p. 84) as a method for combining the linguistic analysis of written
texts with an intertextual understanding of the contexts within which such texts
are produced and interpreted.1 Huckin predicted that over the next decade “the
linguistic analysis of written texts” would become a “major component of compo-
sition research” (p. 84) as this emphasis on understanding texts-within-context
would help to bridge macro accounts and descriptions of workplace cultures
with the micro practices that function within and constitute these sites.
