Traditions of Writing Research

Traditions of Writing Research reflects the different styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. Organized by Charles Bazerman, one of the pre-eminent scholars in writing studies, the conference facilitated an unprecedented gathering of writing researchers. Representing the best of the works presented, this collection focuses solely on writing research, in its lifespan scope bringing together writing researchers interested in early childhood through adult writing practices. It brings together differing research traditions, and offers a broad international scope, with contributor-presenters including top international researchers in the field
The volume's opening section presents writing research agendas from different regions and research groups. The next section addresses the national, political, and historical contexts that shape educational institutions and the writing initiatives developed there. The following sections represent a wide range of research approaches for investigating writing processes and practices in primary, secondary, and higher education. The volume ends with theoretical and methodological reflections.
This exemplary collection, like the conference that it grew out of, will bring new perspectives to the rich dialogue of contemporary research on writing and advance understanding of this complex and important human activity.

I. Approaches in Various Regions

1. Modern ‘writingology’ in China -- Chen Huijun
2 The French Didactics approach to writing, from elementary school to university -- I. Delcambre & Y. Reuter
3. What factors influence the improvement of academic writing practices? A study of reform of undergraduate writing in Norwegian higher education -- Olga Dysthe
4. Mapping Genre Researches in Brazil: An exploratory study -- Antonia Dilamar Araújo
5. The teaching and learning of writing in Portugal: the case of a research group -- Luísa Álvares Pereira, Conceição Aleixo, Inês Cardoso, & Luciana Graça
6. Spanish Research on Writing Instruction For Students with and without Learning Disabilties -- Jesús-Nicasio García, Ana-María de Caso-Fuertes, Raquel Fidalgo-Redondo, Olga Arias-Gundín & Mark Torrance

II. Writing Education in political and historical contexts

7. Writing, from Stalinism to Democracy: Language Pedagogy and Politics in Poland, 1945-1999 -- Cezar M. Ornatowski
8. A Pilot Investigation: A Longitudinal Study of Student Writing in a Post-totalitarian State -- Gil Harootunian
9. The continuum illiterate-literate and the contrast between different ethnicities
Maria Sílvia Cintra
10. Strategies, Policies and Research on Reading and Writing in Colombian Universities
-- Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón

III. Research on Primary and Secondary School Practice

11. Young Children Revising Their Own Texts in School Settings -- Mirta Castedo & Emilia Ferreiro
12. Written Representations of Nominal Morphology by Chinese and Moroccan Children Learning a Romance Language -- Liliana Tolchinsky & Naymé Salas
13. Relationships Between Idea Generation and Transcription: How the Act of Writing Shapes What Children Write -- John R. Hayes & Virginia W. Berninger
14. Academic Writing in Spanish Compulsory Education: Improvements after didactic intervention on sixth graders’ expository texts -- Teodoro Álvarez Angulo & Isabel García Parejo
15. Caught in the middle years: Improving writing in the middle and upper primary years -- Val Faulkner, Judith Rivalland, & Janet Hunter
16. Teachers as Mediators of Instructional Texts -- Suzie Y. Null
17. Pushing the Boundaries of Writing: The Consequentiality of Visualizing Voice in Bilingual Youth Radio -- Deborah Romero & Dana Walker
18. Classroom Teachers as Authors of the Professional Article: National Writing Project Influence on Teachers Who Publish -- Anne Whitney

IV. Research on Higher Education Practice

19. The International WAC/WID Mapping Project: Objectives, Methods, and Early Results -- Chris Thaiss
20. Rhetorical features of student science writing in introductory university oceanography -- Gregory J. Kelly, Charles Bazerman, Audra Skukauskaite & William Prothero
21. Reading and writing in the Social Sciences in Argentine universities -- Paula Carlino
22. Preparing Students to Write: A Case Study of the Role Played by Student Questions in their Quest to Understand How to Write an Assignment in Economics -- Barbara Wake
23. Can archived TV interviews with Social Sciences scholars enhance the quality of students’ academic writing? -- Terry Inglese
24. Social Academic Writing: Exploring Academic Literacies in Text-based Computer Conferencing -- Warren M. Liew & Arnetha F. Ball
25. Between Peer Review and Peer Production: Genre, Wikis, and the Politics of Digital Code in Academe -- Doreen Starke-Meyerring
V. theories and Methodologies for UNDERSTANDING WRITING AND WRITING PROCESSES
26.Writing in Multiple Contexts: Vygotskian CHAT Meets the Phenomenology of Genre -- David R. Russell
27. The Contributions of North American Longitudinal Studies of Writing in Higher Education to our Understanding of Writing Development -- Paul Rogers
28. Statistical Modeling of Writing Processes -- Daniel Perrin & Marc Wildi
29. Writers’s Eye Movements -- Mark Torrance & Asa Wengelin
30. Text Analysis as Theory-Laden Methodology -- Nancy Nelson & Stephanie Grote-Garcia
31. On Textual Silences, Large and Small -- Tom Huckin