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Learning to Write: First Language/Second Language book cover

1st Edition

Learning to Write First Language/Second Language

By Aviva Freedman, Ian Pringle, Janice Yalden Copyright 1983
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1983. The present volume holds the selected papers of a symposium on CCTE Conference, held in 1979 in Ottawa, Canada. The content provides an introduction and a review of major themes in Writing research and pedagogy. This is in part achieved by the papers themselves, and in part by the introductions the Editors offer to each of the four Parts. Second, the reader is continually... Read more

Contents

 

Preface

 

Introduction

 

Part One: The writing process: three orientations

 1. Shaping at the point of utterance James Britton

 2. Does learning to write have to be so difficult? Carl Bereitter and Marlene Scardamalia

 3. New starts and different kids of failure H. G. Widdowson

 

Part Two: The development of writing abilities

 4. The growth and development of first-grade writers Donald H. Graves

 5. Assessing language development: the Crediton project Andrew Wilkinson

 6. Toward a theory of development rhetoric Daniel R. Kirby and Kenneth J. Kantor

 7. Redefining maturity in writing Lee Odell

 

Part Three: Text and discourse

 8. A pluralistic synthesis fo four contemporary models for teaching composition James L. Kinneavy

 9. Contrastive rhetorics: some implications for the writing process Robert B. Kaplan

10. Syntactic skill and ESL writing quality Patrick T. Kameen

11. The reliability of mean T-unit length: some questions for research in written composition Stephen P. Witte

 

Part Four: Implications for teaching

12. Writers and their writing, 15 to 17 Bruce Bennett

13. Scope for intentions Nancy Martin

14. Writing in response to literature John Dixon

15. Instructional focus and the teaching of writing James R. Squire

16. From classroom practice into psycholinguistic theory W. Ross Winterowd

17. Communicative writing practice and Aristotelian rhetoric Keith Johnson

18. Anguish as a second language? Remedies for composition teachers Ann Raimes

 

Bibliography

 

Index

 

Biography

Edited by Aviva Freedman, Ian Pringle, Janice Yalden

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