ABSTRACT

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|101 pages

A History of World Writing and Literacies

chapter 2|16 pages

Drawings by Children Between 3 and 4 Years of Age

Developmental Study of the Period of Form and Graphic-Symbolic Representation

chapter 4|27 pages

History of Typography

part II|36 pages

Speaking and Writing

chapter 7|19 pages

Transforming Speech Into Writing

Constructing a Voice and Identity in Academic World Writing

part III|45 pages

Writing and Reading

chapter 9|22 pages

The Writing-Reading Nexus

Authors and Their Audiences

chapter 10|21 pages

Text Structure

Reading, Writing, Cross Language Perspectives

part IV|72 pages

Writing Beginnings, Cognitive Processes and Self-Regulation

chapter 13|11 pages

Knowledge Building

Improving Ideas, Improving Writing

chapter 14|21 pages

Self-Regulation of Writing

Models of Writing and the Role of Metacognition

part V|23 pages

Unique Elements of Digital Writing

chapter 15|21 pages

When Writing is Produced with Keyboards

Unique Elements of Digital Writing

part VI|17 pages

Intercultural Rhetoric Research

part VII|35 pages

Writing in Everyday Contexts

chapter 17|16 pages

Drumming, Storytelling and Writing

Indigenous Safaliba Sign Making in Rural Ghana

part VIII|44 pages

Educational Communities of Writing

part IX|29 pages

Individual Uses of Written Language

chapter 22|13 pages

The Bilingual Brain

Reading and Writing

part X|33 pages

Students Who Are Deaf and with Autism Spectrum Disorder

chapter 24|16 pages

Language Deprivation and Teacher Positionality

Teaching Academic English to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

part XII|33 pages

The Emergence of the Desire to Write

chapter 28|16 pages

Students Developing as Writers

How and Why Interest Makes a Difference

chapter 29|15 pages

Motivation to Write

part XIII|22 pages

Inspiration and Creativity in Writing

chapter 30|20 pages

From Inspiration to Elaboration

Examining the Interrelationship between Creativity and Writing