TY - BOOK AU - MacArthur,Charles A. AU - Graham,Steve AU - Fitzgerald,Jill TI - Handbook of writing research SN - 1593851901 (cloth) U1 - 808.042071 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Guilford Press KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Study and teaching KW - Research KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Composition and exercises KW - Report writing KW - Language arts N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction; Charles A. MacArthur ... [et al.] --; PART I. THEORIES AND MODELS OF WRITING --; The social and historical context for writing research; Martin Nystrand --; New directions in writing theory; John R. Hayes --; Writing process theory: a functional dynamic approach; Gert Rijlaarsdam, Huub van den Bergh --; A sociocultural theory of writing; Paul Prior --; The processing demands of writing; Mark Torrance, David Galbraith --; PART II. WRITING DEVELOPMENT --; The emergence of writing; Liliana Tolchinsky --; Implications of advancements in brain research and technology for writing development, writing instruction, and educational evolution; Virginia W. Berninger, William D. Winn --; Cognitive factors in the development of children's writing; Deborah McCutchen --; Children's understanding of genre and writing development; Carol A. Donovan, Laura B. Smolkin --; Motivation and writing; Suzanne Hidi, Pietro Boscolo --; Self-efficacy beliefs and motivation in writing development; Frank Pajares, Gio Valiante --; Relations among oral language, reading, and writing development; Timothy Shanahan --; PART III. INSTRUCTIONAL MODELS AND APPROACHES --; Strategy instruction and the teaching of writing: a meta-analysis; Steve Graham --; Tenets of sociocultural theory in writing instructional research; Carol Sue Englert ... [et al.] --; Response to writing; Richard Beach, Tom Friedrich --; Writing to learn: how alternative theories of school writing account for student performance; George E. Newell --; The effects of new technologies on writing and writing processes; Charles A. MacArthur --; "I guess I'd better watch my English": grammars and the teaching of the English language arts; Michael W. Smith ... [et al.] --; The process approach to writing instruction: examining its effectiveness; Ruie J. Pritchard, Ronald L. Honeycutt --; PART IV. WRITING AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS --; Teaching writing in culturally diverse classrooms; Arnetha F. Ball --; Influence of gender on writing development; Shelley Peterson --; Writing instruction for students with learning disabilities; Gary A. Troia --; Multilingual writing in preschool through 12th grade: the last 15 years; Jill Fitzgerald --; PART V. METHODOLOGY AND ANALYTIC TOOLS --; Qualitative research on writing; Katherine Schultz --; Statistical analysis for field experiments and longitudinal data in writing research; Robert D. Abbott ... [et al.] --; Text structure as a window on the cognition of writing: how text analysis provides insights in writing products and writing processes; Ted J.M. Sanders, Joost Schilperoord --; Applications of computers in assessment and analysis of writing; Mark D. Shermis ... [et al.] --; Writing assessment: a techno-history; Brian Huot, Michael Neal --; What does reading have to tell us about writing?: preliminary questions and methodological challenges in examining the neurobiological foundations of writing and writing disabilities; Kenneth R. Pugh ... [et al.] ER -