Learning to Write: First Language/Second Language [Paperback]

Contents

 

Preface

 

Introduction

 

Part One: The writing process: three orientations

 1. Shaping at the point of utterance James Britton

 2. Does learning to write have to be so difficult? Carl Bereitter and Marlene Scardamalia

 3. New starts and different kids of failure H. G. Widdowson

 

Part Two: The development of writing abilities

 4. The growth and development of first-grade writers Donald H. Graves

 5. Assessing language development: the Crediton project Andrew Wilkinson

 6. Toward a theory of development rhetoric Daniel R. Kirby and Kenneth J. Kantor

 7. Redefining maturity in writing Lee Odell

 

Part Three: Text and discourse

 8. A pluralistic synthesis fo four contemporary models for teaching composition James L. Kinneavy

 9. Contrastive rhetorics: some implications for the writing process Robert B. Kaplan

10. Syntactic skill and ESL writing quality Patrick T. Kameen

11. The reliability of mean T-unit length: some questions for research in written composition Stephen P. Witte

 

Part Four: Implications for teaching

12. Writers alC