1st Edition

Reciprocity as a Principle of Educational Discourse Selected Writings of Martin Nystrand

By Martin Nystrand Copyright 2026
312 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book collates Martin Nystrand’s research across his 40-year career, bringing together his studies on the dialogic organization of both writing and classroom discourse. First published in 1986, Nystrand’s work on writing examines how writer–reader interaction shapes writers' processes, texts, and development. Extending this focus to pedagogical contexts, his classroom discourse research... Read more

On Reciprocity: An Introduction (Martin Nystrand)

 Part 1. Reciprocity, the Golden Rule of Discourse and Learning

 Ch 1.1. Reciprocity as a Principle of Discourse (Martin Nystrand)

Ch 1.2. The Role of Context in Written Communication (Martin Nystrand)

Ch 1.3.  The Structure of Textual Space (Martin Nystrand)

 
Part 2. Writing on the Premises of Reader

Introduction: The Rise of Composition Studies (Martin Nystrand)

Ch 2.1. A Social-Interactive Model of Writing (Martin Nystrand)

Ch 2.2. On Writing History: The Case of Frank Lloyd Wright (Martin Nystrand)

Ch 2.3. Learning to Write by Talking about Writing (Martin Nystrand)

 
Part 3. Dialogic Pedagogy

Introduction (Robert Gundlach)

Ch 3.1 Dialogic Pedagogy: When Recitation Becomes Conversation (Martin Nystrand)

Ch 3.2. The Big Picture: Language and Learning in Hundreds of English Lessons (Martin Nystrand & Adam Gamoran)

Ch 3.3. Questions In Time: Investigating the Structure and Dynamics of Unfolding Classroom Discourse (M. Nystrand, L. Wu, A. Gamoran, S. Zeiser, & D. Long)

 References

Afterword: Conversation as a Place to Be (Robert Gundlach)

Biography

Martin Nystrand is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English Emeritus and a former director of the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.