Traditions of Writing Research

by Bazerman; Charles

• ISBN13: 9780415993388
• ISBN10: 0415993385
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-10-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Traditions of Writing Research reflects the various styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. This volume, like the conference that it grew out of, will bring new perspectives to the rich dialogue of contemporary research on writing and advance understanding of this complex and important human activity.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Approaches in various regions	p. 1
Modern "writingology" in China	p. 3
The French didactics approach to writing, from elementary school to university	p. 17
What factors influence the improvement of academic writing practices? A study of reform of undergraduate writing in Norwegian higher education	p. 31
Mapping genre research in Brazil: an exploratory study	p. 44
The teaching and learning of writing in Portugal: the case of a research group	p. 58
Spanish research on writing instruction for students with and without learning disabilities	p. 71
Writing education in political and historical contexts	p. 83
Writing, from Stalinism to democracy: literacy education and politics in Poland, 1945-1999	p. 85
A pilot investigation: a longitudinal study of student writing in a post-totalitarian state	p. 97
The continuum illiterate-literate and the contrast between different ethnicities	p. 111
Strategies, policies and research on reading and writing in Colombian universities	p. 122
Research on primary and secondary school practice	p. 133
Young children revising their own texts in school settings	p. 135
Written representations of nominal morphology by Chinese and Moroccan children learning a Romance language	p. 151
Relationships between idea generation and transcription: how the act of writing shapes what children write	p. 166
Academic writing in Spanish compulsory education: improvements after didactic intervention on sixth graders' expository texts	p. 181
Caught in the middle: improving writing in the middle and upper primary years	p. 198
Teachers as mediators of instructional texts	p. 212
Pushing the boundaries of writing: the consequentiality of visualizing voice in bilingual youth radio	p. 224
Classroom teachers as authors of the professional article: National Writing Project influence on teachers who publish	p. 237
Research on higher education practice	p. 249
The international WAC/WID mapping project: objectives, methods, and early results	p. 251
Rhetorical features of student science writing in introductory university oceanography	p. 265
Reading and writing in the social sciences in Argentine universities	p. 283
Preparing students to write: a case study of the role played by student questions in their quest to understand how to write an assignment in economics	p. 297
Can archived TV interviews with social sciences scholars enhance the quality of students' academic writing?	p. 309
Social academic writing: exploring academic literacies in text-based computer conferencing	p. 325
Between peer review and peer production: genre, wikis, and the politics of digital code in academe	p. 339
Theories and methodologies for understanding writing and writing processes	p. 351
Writing in multiple contexts: Vygotskian CHAT meets the phenomenology of genre	p. 353
The contributions of North American longitudinal studies of writing in higher education to our understanding of writing development	p. 365
Statistical modeling of writing processes	p. 378
Writers' eye movements	p. 394
Text analysis as theory-laden methodology	p. 406
On textual silences, large and small	p. 419
Index	p. 432
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