ABSTRACT
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy, unified, and comprehensive source of information to satisfy their interest. The goal of this book is to fill this void by reflecting on the phenomenon of writing from a developmental perspective. It contains an integrated set of chapters devoted to issues of writing: how writing develops, how it is and should be taught and how writing paths of development differ across writing genres. Specifically, the book addresses typologies of writing; pathways of the development of writing skills; stages of the development of writing; individual differences in the acquisition of writing skills; writing ability and disability; teaching writing; and the development and demonstration of expertise in writing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|43 pages
The Origins of Writing
chapter 2|25 pages
The Cultural Evolution of Written Language and Its Effects
part 2|61 pages
Writing and Human Development
chapter 5|20 pages
What Writing Is and How It Changes Across Early and Middle Childhood Development
chapter 6|21 pages
The Writing Brain of Normal Child Writers and Children With Writing Disabilities
part 3|66 pages
Working Memory and Expertise in Writing
part 4|67 pages
The Teaching of Writing
chapter 11|16 pages
Development of Ideational Writing Through Knowledge Building
part 5|67 pages
Creativity and Emotions in Writing
chapter 17|17 pages
Seeing, Connecting, Writing
part 6|60 pages
Disorder of Written Language
chapter 22|12 pages
A Model of Writing Chinese Characters
part 7|29 pages
Group Testing and Assessment of Skill and Competence in Writing
chapter 23|14 pages
Large-scale Online Writing Assessments
chapter 24|14 pages
Design of a College-level Test of Written Communication
part 8|60 pages
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