Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text

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Charles Bazerman
Routledge, 2008 - Education - 652 pages
Origins and forms of writing / Denise Schmandt-Besserat and Michael Erard -- History of writing technologies / Brian Gabrial -- History of typography / David Jury -- History of the book, authorship, book design, and publishing / David Finkelstein -- History of reflection, theory, and research on writing / Paul A. Prior and Karen J. Lunsford -- Writing and the social formation of economy / Graham Smart -- On documentary society / Dorothy E. Smith and Catherine F. Schryer -- Writing, text, and the law / Peter Tiersma -- Writing and secular knowledge apart from modern European institutions / Charles Bazerman and Paul Rogers -- Writing and secular knowledge within modern European institutions / Charles Bazerman and Paul Rogers -- The collection and organization of written knowledge / Jack Anderson -- Writing as art and entertainment / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Writing and journalism : politics, social movement, and the public sphere / Martin Conboy -- Writing in the professions / Anne Beaufort -- History of writing in the community / Ursula Howard -- Writing, gender, and culture : an interdisciplinary perspective / Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau -- Writing and social change / Brenton Faber -- History of schools and writing / David R. Olsen -- Writing in primary school / Pietro Boscolo -- Writing in secondary schools / George Hillocks -- Teaching of writing in higher education / Richard H. Haswell -- Teaching of writing and writing teachers through the ages / Duane Roen, Maureen Daly Goggin, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon -- Construct and consequence : validity in writing assessment / Sandra Murphy and Kathleen Blake Yancey -- Teaching of writing and diversity : access, identity, and achievement / John Albertini -- Development of writing abilities in childhood / Deborah Wells Rowe -- Defining adolescent and adult writing development : a contest of empirical and federal wills / Julie Cheville and Margaret Finders -- The reading-writing nexus in composition research / Nancy Nelson -- Writing and cognition : implications of the cognitive architecture for learning to write and writing to learn / Deborah McCutchen, Paul Teske, and Catherine Bankston -- Writing and communication disorders across the life span / Julie A. Hengst and Cynthia J. Johnson -- Writing as physical and emotional healing : finding from clinical research / Jessica Singer and George H.S. Singer -- Identity and the writing of culturally and linguistically diverse students / Arnetha F. Ball and Pamela Ellis -- Multilingual writing development / Dwight Atkinson and Ulla Connor -- Writing and speaking / Douglas Biber and Camilla Vasquez -- Grammar, the sentence, and traditions of linguistic analysis / Mary J. Schleppegrell -- Form, text organization, genre, coherence, and cohesion / Christine M. Tardy and John M. Swales -- Persuasion, audience, and argument / Carolyn R. Miller and Davida Charney -- Seeing the screen : research into visual and digital writing practices / Anne Frances Wysocki.

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About the author (2008)

Charles Bazerman is Professor and Chair of Education at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 2007 he was elected to second vice president of the College Composition and Communication association, the higher education division of the National Council for Teachers of English, the largest English & Composition association in the United States, and he will be president of the organization in 2010. He has authored, coauthored, and coedited numerous titles, and also edits a series of Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition for Parlor Press.

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