Traditions of Writing Research

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 Araujo

5. The teaching and learning of writing in Portugal: the case of a research group -- Luisa Alvares Pereira, Conceicao Aleixo, Ines Cardoso, & Luciana Graca

6. Spanish Research on Writing Instruction For Students with and without Learning Disabilties -- Jesus-Nicasio Garcia, Ana-Maria de Caso-Fuertes, Raquel Fidalgo-Redondo, Olga Arias-Gundin & 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 Silvia Cintra

10. Strategies, Policies and Research on Reading and Writing in Colombian Universities

-- Blanca Yaneth Gonzalez Pinzon

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 & Nayme 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 Alvarez Angulo & Isabel Garcia 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