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

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Charles Bazerman
Routledge, Mar 4, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 670 pages

The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures 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, it reflects 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. The Handbook’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 writing—in 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.

 

Contents

Advisory Board
Introduction
HISTORY OF WRITING
History of Writing Technologies
History of Typography
History of the Book Authorship Book Design and Publishing
History of Reflection Theory and Research on Writing
WRITING IN SOCIETY
Writing in Secondary Schools
Teaching of Writing in Higher Education
Teaching of Writing and Writing Teachers Through the Ages
Validity in Writing Assessment
Access Identity and Achievement
WRITING AND THE INDIVIDUAL
A Contest of Empirical
The ReadingWriting Nexus in Discourse Research

Writing and the Social Formation of Economy
On Documentary Society
Writing Text and the
Writing and Secular Knowledge Within Modern European Institutions
The Collection and Organization of Written Knowledge
Writing as Art and Entertainment
Politics Social Movements and the Public Sphere
Writing in the Professions
History of Writing in the Community
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Writing and Social Change
WRITING IN SCHOOLING
Writing in Primary School
Implications of the Cognitive Architecture
Writing and Communication Disorders Across the Life Span
Findings From Clinical Research
Identity and the Writing of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Multilingual Writing Development
WRITING AS TEXT
Grammar the Sentence and Traditions of Linguistic Analysis
Form Text Organization Genre Coherence and Cohesion
Persuasion Audience and Argument
Research Into Visual and Digital Writing Practices
Author Index
Subject Index
Copyright

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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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