In 2016 the Argentinian National Universities of Cordoba, Entre Ríos, Río Cuarto, and Villa María granted him a Doctor Honoris Causa.

[7] In consequent publications, he studied such topics as the changing genres of disciplinary research articles,[8] the development of reference and citation practices[9][10] and the use of evidence in student learning[11] and professional domains.

[13] Drawing on his various historical and empirical studies and the work of colleagues, Bazerman developed theories about genre and how they participated in and helped form activity systems, initially in his book Shaping Written Knowledge.

[23][24] To further investigate how consequential social actions engage multiple activity and genre systems in interaction, he examined how Thomas Edison and his colleagues needed to communicatively engage with multiple journalistic, financial, technical, legal, cultural, and corporate spheres in the course of inventing and producing central light and power.

[25] In a series of articles he also applied this reasoning to understand the rise of environmental knowledge, public and governmental engagement with the environment, and the politics of climate change legislation.

[36][37] The question of the development of individual writers within their social circumstances and their changing understanding of their communicative need and social circumstances resulted in a series of inquiries into the lifespan development of writing and the methodological difficulties of such a project;[38][39] and his participation in collaborative groups to engage that inquiry.