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2nd Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing

Edited By Rosalind Horowitz Copyright 2023
    630 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    630 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    630 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldwide and brings them together into a common intellectual space. This is the first such international compilation.

    Now in its second edition, the Handbook inaugurates a wide scope of international research advancement, with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. It provides advanced surveys of scholarship on the histories of world and child writing and literacy; interconnections between writing, reading, and speech; digital writing; writing in communities; writing in the sciences and engineering; writing instruction and assessment; and writing and disability. A section on international measures for assessment of writing is a new addition to this compendium of research.

    This Handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in writing studies and rhetoric, composition, creative expression, education, and literacy studies.

    Part I. A History of World Writing and Literacies

    1. Origins and Forms of Writing

    Michael Erard and Denise Schmandt-Besserat

    2. Drawings by Children between 3 and 4 Years of Age: Developmental Study of the Period of Form and Graphic-Symbolic Representation

    Antonio Machόn

    3. History of Writing Technologies Redux

    Brian Gabrial

    4. History of Typography

    David Jury

    5. History of the Book

    David Finkelstein

    6. History of Schools and Writing

    David R. Olson

    Part II. Speaking and Writing

    7. Transforming Speech into Writing: Constructing a Voice and Identity in Academic World Writing

    Rosalind Horowitz

    8. Writing and Speaking

    Douglas Biber

    Part III. Writing and Reading

    9. The Writing-Reading Nexus: Authors and Their Audiences

    Nancy Nelson, Kim Skinner and Estanislado S. Barrera, IV

    10. Text Structure: Reading, Writing, Cross Language Perspectives

    Bonnie J.F. Meyer, Gala Campos and Jia Yu

    Part IV. Writing Beginnings, Cognitive Processes and Self- Regulation

    11. Writing in Early Childhood

    Deborah Wells Rowe

    12. Cognitive Account of the Development of Writing Skill: Cross-Language Evidence

    Deborah McCutchen

    13. Knowledge Building: Improving Ideas, Improving Writing

    Carl Bereiter, Maria Bogouslavsky, Wakana Tsuji and Marlene Scardamalia

    14. Self-Regulation of Writing: Models of Writing and the Role of Metacognition

    Douglas J. Hacker

    Part V. Unique Elements of Digital Writing: Linear and Non-Linear Multidimensional Contexts

    15. When Writing is Produced with Keyboards: Unique Elements of Digital Writing

    Merav Asaf, Gal Ben- Yehudah and Ely Kozminsky

    Part VI. Intercultural Rhetoric Research

    16. Intercultural Rhetoric Research in an Internationalizing World

    Kyle McIntosh and Ulla Connor

    Part VII. Writing in Everyday Contexts

    17. Drumming, Storytelling and Writing: Indigenous Safaliba Sign Making in Rural Ghana

    Ari Sherris and Edmund Kungi Yakubu

    18. Conceptualizing Everyday Writing

    Judy Kalman, Roberto Méndez- Arreola and Patricia Valdivia

    Part VII. Educational Communities of Writing

    19. Writer(s)-within-Community Model of Writing as a Lens for Studying the Teaching of Writing

    Steve Graham

    20. Examining Genre: Negotiating Meanings in a Local Context Using a Dialogic and Sociocultural Approach

    Triantafillia Kostouli

    21. Research Writing as a Tool for Doctoral Students and Early Career Researchers’ Development

    Montserrat Castellό and Anna Sala-Bubaré

    Part IX. Individual Uses of Written Language

    22. The Bilingual Brain: Reading and Writing

    Rachel Eggleston and Ioulia Kovelman

    23. Writing as Physical and Emotional Healing: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses

    George H.S. Singer, Jessica Early, Talitha Buschor, Destiny Hoerberg and Hui Zhang

    Part X. Students Who Are Deaf and with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Development of Writing

    24. Language Deprivation and Teacher Positionality: Teaching Academic English to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

    Rachel Mazique

    25. Writing and Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Matthew Carl Zajic

    Part XI. Writing in the Sciences and Engineering

    26. Learning Through Argumentative Writing on Scientific Topics

    Michael S. Van Winkle and E. Michael Nussbaum

    27. Written Communication in Engineering Work

    Marie C. Paretti and Julie Dyke Ford

    Part XII. The Emergence of the Desire to Write

    28. Students Developing as Writers: How and Why Interest Makes a Difference

    Suzanne E. Hidi, Alecia M. Magnifico and K. Ann Renninger

    29. Motivation to Write

    Pietro Boscolo

    Part XIII. Inspiration and Creativity in Writing

    30. From Inspiration to Elaboration: Examining the Interrelationship between Creativity and Writing

    Gadi Alexander

    Part XIV. International Measures for the Assessment of Writing

    31. Computational Measures of Linguistic Maturity in Writing

    Richard Hudson

    32. Brain Imaging Methods and Bilingual Readers and Writers

    Kehui Zhang, Rachel Eggleston and Ioulia Kovelman

    33. Reading: A Precondition for Writing

    John H.A.L. De Jong

    34. Assessment Measures in Reading that May Be Useful for Writing

    Nils Johannes Naumann

    35. Measuring Discovery Through Writing

    David Galbraith, Amy Peters, Sophie Hall and Veerle Baaijen

    Biography

    Rosalind Horowitz is Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Dr. Horowitz has received research funding from a variety of sources including The National Academy of Education USA and was selected by the College of Education and Human Development at The University of Texas at San Antonio for Excellence in Globalism Advancement.

    "Fascinating and thorough! I was delighted to learn so much about the process that so many of us often just take for granted. This volume is bound to be the standard reference work on understanding the writing process for decades to come. A work of great breadth and superb scholarship. I expect this volume to be one of the most cited reference works for the international community of scholars and students of writing."

    David Berliner, Former President, American Educational Research Association; Professor Emeritus, Educational Psychology, Arizona State University, USA.

    "This is a timely book that covers many aspects of one of the most fundamental cultural inventions in human history that changed our mode of thinking and allowed communication across time and space."

    René van der Veer, Emeritus Professor, Department of Education, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

    "This masterful volume will be a key resource for scholars of writing for decades to come. It covers the historical development from prehistory to the digital age, and it has something to tell us about writing’s educational, psychological, and sociological dimensions. Horowitz has collected and organized the chapters to come up with a volume that provides new insights into just about every aspect of writing."

    James V. Wertsch, Vice Chancellor for International Affairs, Emeritus, David R. Francis Distinguished University Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

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