Handbook of Research on Writing

by Bazerman; Charles

• ISBN13: 9780805848700
• ISBN10: 0805848703
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-04
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

TheHandbook of Research on Writingventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and technologies do we use to write? How did our current forms and practices of writing emerge within social history? What impacts has writing had on society and the individual? What does it mean to be and to learn to be an active participant in contemporary systems of meaning? This cornerstone volume advances the field by aggregating the broad ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research and bringing them together into a common intellectual space. Endeavoring to synthesize what has been learned about writing in all nations in recent decades, itreflects a wide scope of international research activity, with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. Chapter authors, all eminent researchers, come from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, archeology, typography, communication studies, linguistics, journalism, sociology, rhetoric, composition, law, medicine, education, history, and literacy studies. TheHandbook's 37 chapters are organized in five sections: *The History of Writing; *Writing in Society; *Writing in Schooling; *Writing and the Individual; *Writing as Text This volume, in summing up what is known about writing, deepens our experience and appreciation of writingin ways that will make teachers better at teaching writing and all of its readers better as individual writers. It will be interesting and useful to scholars and researchers of writing, to anyone who teaches writing in any context at any level, and to all those who are just curious about writing.

Table of Contents

Advisory Board	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
History of Writing	p. 5
Origins and Forms of Writing	p. 7
History of Writing Technologies	p. 23
History of Typography	p. 35
History of the Book, Authorship, Book Design, and Publishing	p. 65
History of Reflection, Theory, and Research on Writing	p. 81
Writing in Society	p. 97
Writing and the Social Formation of Economy	p. 103
On Documentary Society	p. 113
Writing, Text, and the Law	p. 129
Writing and Secular Knowledge Apart From Modern European Institutions	p. 143
Writing and Secular Knowledge Within Modern European Institutions	p. 157
The Collection and Organization of Written Knowledge	p. 177
Writing as Art and Entertainment	p. 191
Writing and Journalism: Politics, Social Movements, and the Public Sphere	p. 205
Writing in the Professions	p. 221
History of Writing in the Community	p. 237
Writing, Gender, and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	p. 255
Writing and Social Change	p. 269
Writing in Schooling	p. 281
History of Schools and Writing	p. 283
Writing in Primary School	p. 293
Writing in Secondary Schools	p. 311
Teaching of Writing in Higher Education	p. 331
Teaching of Writing and Writing Teachers Through the Ages	p. 347
Construct and Consequence: Validity in Writing Assessment	p. 365
Teaching of Writing and Diversity: Access, Identity, and Achievement	p. 387
Writing and the Individual	p. 399
Development of Writing Abilities in Childhood	p. 401
Defining Adolescent and Adult Writing Development: A Contest of Empirical and Federal Wills	p. 421
The Reading-Writing Nexus in Discourse Research	p. 435
Writing and Cognition: Implications of the Cognitive Architecture for Learning to Write and Writing to Learn	p. 451
Writing and Communication Disorders Across the Life Span	p. 471
Writing as Physical and Emotional Healing: Findings From Clinical Research	p. 485
Identity and the Writing of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students	p. 499
Multilingual Writing Development	p. 515
Writing as Text	p. 533
Writing and Speaking	p. 535
Grammar, the Sentence, and Traditions of Linguistic Analysis	p. 549
Form, Text Organization, Genre, Coherence, and Cohesion	p. 565
Persuasion, Audience, and Argument	p. 583
Seeing the Screen: Research Into Visual and Digital Writing Practices	p. 599
Author Index	p. 613
Subject Index	p. 641
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