Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text

857 Pages·2007·8.204 MB·English

by  Charles Bazerman (editor)

HANDBOOK OF
RESEARCH
ON WRITING
HISTORY, SOCIETY, SCHOOL,
INDIVIDUAL, TEXT

HANDBOOK OF
RESEARCH
ON WRITING
HISTORY, SOCIETY, SCHOOL,
INDIVIDUAL, TEXT
Edited by
CHARLES BAZERMAN
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Handbook of research on writing/Charles Bazerman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8058-4870-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8058-4869–4 (hardback: alk. paper)
1. Written communication. 2. Rhetoric. 3. Discourse analysis. I. Title.
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Contents

Advisory Board ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Contributors xv

Introduction 1

5
I. HISTORY OF WRITING

1. Origins and Forms of Writing 7
Demise Schmandt-Besserat and Michael Erard
2. History of Writing Technologies 27
Brian Gabrial
3. History of Typography 41
David Jury
4. History of the Book, Authorship, Book Design, and Publishing 78
David Finkelstein
5. History of Reflection, Theory, and Research on Writing 97
Paul A.Prior and Karen J.Lunsford

117
II. WRITING IN SOCIETY

6. Writing and the Social Formation of Economy 123
Graham Smart
7. On Documentary Society 136
8. Writing, Text, and the Law 156
Peter Tiersma
9. Writing and Secular Knowledge Apart From Modern European Institutions 172
Charles Bazerman and Paul Rogers
10. Writing and Secular Knowledge Within Modern European Institutions 189
Charles Bazerman and Paul Rogers
11. The Collection and Organization of Written Knowledge 214
Jack Andersen
12. Writing as Art and Entertainment 232
Patrick Colm Hogan
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13. Writing and Journalism: Politics, Social Movements, and the Public Sphere 249
Martin Conboy
14. Writing in the Professions 269
Anne Beaufort
15. History of Writing in the Community 290
Ursula Howard
16. Writing, Gender, and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 312
Mary P.Sheridan-Rabideau
17. Writing and Social Change 329
Brenton Faber

344
III. WRITING IN SCHOOLING

18. History of Schools and Writing 346
David R.Olson
19. Writing in Primary School 359
Pietro Boscolo
20. Writing in Secondary Schools 381
George Hillocks
21. Teaching of Writing in Higher Education 405
Richard H.Haswell
22. Teaching of Writing and Writing Teachers Through the Ages 425
Duane Roen, Maureen Daly Goggin, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon
23. Construct and Consequence: Validity in Writing Assessment 448
Sandra Murphy and Kathleen Blake Yancey
24. Teaching of Writing and Diversity: Access, Identity, and Achievement 475
John Albertini

489
IV. WRITING AND THE INDIVIDUAL

25. Development of Writing Abilities in Childhood 491
Deborah Wells Rowe
26.Defining Adolescent and Adult Writing Development: A Contest of 516

Empirical and Federal Wills
Julie Gheville and Margaret Finders
27. The Reading-Writing Nexus in Discourse Research 534
Nancy Nelson
28.Writing and Cognition: Implications of the Cognitive Architecture for 554

Learning to Write and Writing to Learn
Deborah McGutchen, Paul Teske, and Catherine Bankston
29. Writing and Communication Disorders Across the Life Span 579
Julie A.Hengst and Cynthia J.Johnson
Contents vii
30. Writing as Physical and Emotional Healing: Findings From Clinical Research 597
Jessica Singer and George H.S.Singer
31. Identity and the Writing of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students 614
Arnetha F.Ball and Pamela Ellis
32. Multilingual Writing Development 633
Dwight Atkinson and Ulla Connor

655
V. WRITING AS TEXT

33. Writing and Speaking 657
Douglas Biber and Camilla Vásquez
34. Grammar, the Sentence, and Traditions of Linguistic Analysis 673
Mary J.Schleppegrell
35. Form, Text Organization, Genre, Coherence, and Cohesion 693
Christine M.Tardy and John M.Swales
36. Persuasion, Audience, and Argument 715
Carolyn R.Miller and Davida Charney
37. Seeing the Screen: Research Into Visual and Digital Writing Practices 735
Anne Frances Wysocki

Author Index 753
Subject Index 815

Advisory Board
John Albertini, Rochester Institute of Technology
Arnetha F.Ball, Stanford University
Vijay Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong
Suzanne Bratcher, Northern Arizona University
Wally Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara, emeritus
Ulla Connor, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis
Florian Coulmas, University of Duisburg, Germany
Anne Haas Dyson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, University of California, Berkeley, National Writing Project
Sara W.Freedman, University of California, Berkeley
Jack Goody, Cambridge University, emeritus
John R.Hayes, Carnegie Mellon University, emeritus
George Hillocks, University of Chicago, emeritus
Gunther Kress, London Institute of Education
James Martin, University of Sydney
Susan McLeod, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sandy Murphy, University of California, Davis
David R.Olson, OISE, University of Toronto
Anthony Pare, McGill University
James Pennebaker, University of Texas, Austin
Paul A.Prior, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gert Rijlaarsdam, University of Amsterdam
David Russell, Iowa State University
Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia
Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University