Handbook Of Writing Research Second Edition

Author : Charles A. MacArthur,Steve Graham,Jill Fitzgerald
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462529315

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Handbook of Writing Research, Second Edition by Charles A. MacArthur,Steve Graham,Jill Fitzgerald Pdf

The definitive reference in the field, this volume synthesizes current knowledge on writing development and instruction at all grade levels. Prominent scholars examine numerous facets of writing from sociocultural, cognitive, linguistic, neuroscience, and new literacy/technological perspectives. The volume reviews the evidence base for widely used instructional approaches, including those targeting particular components of writing. Issues in teaching specific populations--including students with disabilities and English learners--are addressed. Innovative research methods and analytic tools are clearly explained, and key directions for future investigation identified. New to This Edition *Chapters on genre instruction, evaluation and revision, argumentative writing, computer-based instruction, and professional development. *Chapters on new literacies, out-of-school writing, translation, and self-regulation. *Many new topics and authors, including more international perspectives. *Multiple chapters connect research findings to the Common Core writing standards. See also the editors' Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Second Edition, an accessible course text and practitioner's guide.

Author : Charles A. MacArthur,Steve Graham,Jill Fitzgerald
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781593857509

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Handbook of Writing Research by Charles A. MacArthur,Steve Graham,Jill Fitzgerald Pdf

Presents a collection of essays discussing the theories and models of writing research.

Author : C.A. MacArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:952522176

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Handbook of Writing Research by C.A. MacArthur Pdf

Author : Rebecca Moore Howard
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0077477464

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Writing Matters, tabbed (comb-bound) by Rebecca Moore Howard Pdf

Writing Matters Tabbed Make it your own! Writing Matters Tabbed unites research, reasoning, documentation, grammar, and style into a cohesive whole, helping students see the conventions of writing as a network of responsibilities writers have . . . . . . to other writers. Writing Matters Tabbed clarifies the responsibility writers have to one another, whether they are collaborating in online peer review or drawing on digital and print sources in a research project, to represent the ideas of other writers fairly and accurately, to give credit to those from whom they have borrowed words or ideas, and to consider and address alternative viewpoints. . . . to the audience. Writing Matters Tabbed stresses the importance of using conventions appropriate to the audience, to write clearly, and to provide readers with the information and interpretation they need to make sense of a topic. . . . to the topic. Writing Matters Tabbed emphasizes the writer’s responsibility to explore a topic thoroughly and creatively, to assess sources carefully, and to provide reliable information at a depth that does the topic justice. . . . to themselves. Writing Matters Tabbed encourages writers to take their writing seriously and to approach writing tasks as an opportunity to learn about a topic and to expand their scope as writers. Students are more likely to write well when they think of themselves as writers rather than as error makers. By explaining rules in the context of responsibility, Writing Matters Tabbed addresses composition students respectfully as mature and capable fellow participants in the research and writing process.

Author : Steve Graham,Charles A. MacArthur,Jill Fitzgerald
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462510108

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Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Second Edition by Steve Graham,Charles A. MacArthur,Jill Fitzgerald Pdf

This book has been replaced by Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3796-9.

Author : Steve Graham,Charles A. MacArthur,Jill Fitzgerald
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462508716

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Best Practices in Writing Instruction by Steve Graham,Charles A. MacArthur,Jill Fitzgerald Pdf

Highly practical and accessible, this indispensable book provides clear-cut strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors are leading authorities who demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the Internet in instruction is addressed, and exemplary approaches to teaching English-language learners and students with special needs are discussed. The book also offers best-practice guidelines for designing an effective writing program. Focusing on everyday applications of current scientific research, the book features many illustrative case examples and vignettes.

Author : Christine Mowat
Publisher : Thomson Carswell
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062044297

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A Plain Language Handbook for Legal Writers by Christine Mowat Pdf

Provides 1) theory about plain language for legal writers, 2) models of legal documents such as wills, laws, agreements, etc, and 3) practice exercises on language.

Author : Gert Rijlaarsdam,Huub Bergh,Michel Couzijn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402027390

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Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing by Gert Rijlaarsdam,Huub Bergh,Michel Couzijn Pdf

Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing is a handbook on research on the effective teaching and learning of writing. It is a reference for researchers and educators in the domain of written composition in education. Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing covers all age ranges and school settings and it deals with various aspects of writing and text types. Research methodology varies from experimental studies to reflective classroom practitioners’ research. This new volume in the series Studies in Writing brings together researchers from all kinds of disciplines involved in writing research and countries in their endeavour to improve the teaching of written composition. It is the result of co-operation of researchers all over the world and shows that in spite of the differences in educational regions over the world, research in writing shares similar problems, and tries to find answers, and generate new questions. The body of knowledge in this volume will inspire researchers and teachers to improve research and practice.

Author : Charles Bazerman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135251116

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Handbook of Research on Writing by Charles Bazerman Pdf

The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and technologies do we use to write? How did our current forms and practices of writing emerge within social history? What impacts has writing had on society and the individual? What does it mean to be and to learn to be an active participant in contemporary systems of meaning? This cornerstone volume advances the field by aggregating the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research and bringing them together into a common intellectual space. Endeavoring to synthesize what has been learned about writing in all nations in recent decades, it reflects a wide scope of international research activity, with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. Chapter authors, all eminent researchers, come from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, archeology, typography, communication studies, linguistics, journalism, sociology, rhetoric, composition, law, medicine, education, history, and literacy studies. The Handbook’s 37 chapters are organized in five sections: *The History of Writing; *Writing in Society; *Writing in Schooling; *Writing and the Individual; *Writing as Text This volume, in summing up what is known about writing, deepens our experience and appreciation of writing—in ways that will make teachers better at teaching writing and all of its readers better as individual writers. It will be interesting and useful to scholars and researchers of writing, to anyone who teaches writing in any context at any level, and to all those who are just curious about writing.

Author : Elaine Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 007729369X

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A Writer's Resource by Elaine Maimon,Janice Peritz,Kathleen Yancey Pdf

A resource for writing in college and beyond. It provides integrated coverage of technology and visual rhetoric, and hallmark coverage of writing across the curriculum.

Author : Katherine O. Acheson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551119922

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Writing Essays About Literature by Katherine O. Acheson Pdf

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.

Author : Rosalind Horowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429795701

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The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing by Rosalind Horowitz Pdf

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.

Author : Richard E. Mayer,Patricia A. Alexander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317566939

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Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction by Richard E. Mayer,Patricia A. Alexander Pdf

During the past 30 years, researchers have made exciting progress in the science of learning (i.e., how people learn) and the science of instruction (i.e., how to help people learn). This second edition of the Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction is intended to provide an overview of these research advances. With chapters written by leading researchers from around the world, this volume examines learning and instruction in a variety of learning environments including in classrooms and out of classrooms, and with a variety of learners including K-16 students and adult learners. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how and why educational practice should be guided by research evidence concerning what works in instruction. The Handbook is written at a level that is appropriate for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in an evidence-based approach to learning and instruction. The book is divided into two sections: learning and instruction. The learning section consists of chapters on how people learn in reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, second language, and physical education, as well as how people acquire the knowledge and processes required for critical thinking, studying, self-regulation, and motivation. The instruction section consists of chapters on effective instructional methods—feedback, examples, questioning, tutoring, visualizations, simulations, inquiry, discussion, collaboration, peer modeling, and adaptive instruction. Each chapter in this second edition of the Handbook has been thoroughly revised to integrate recent advances in the field of educational psychology. Two chapters have been added to reflect advances in both helping students develop learning strategies and using technology to individualize instruction. As with the first edition, this updated volume showcases the best research being done on learning and instruction by traversing a broad array of academic domains, learning constructs, and instructional methods.

Author : Nicholas J. Higham
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780898714203

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Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham Pdf

Nick Higham follows up his successful HWMS volume with this much-anticipated second edition.

Author : Roger Beard,Debra Myhill,Jeni Riley,Martin Nystrand
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781848600386

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The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development by Roger Beard,Debra Myhill,Jeni Riley,Martin Nystrand Pdf

Writing development is currently the focus of substantial international debate because it is the aspect of literacy education that has been least responsive to central government and state reforms. Teaching approaches in writing have been slower to change than those in teaching reading and pupil attainment in writing has increased at a much more modest rate than pupil attainment in reading. This handbook critically examines research and theoretical issues that impact on writing development from the early years through to adulthood. It provides those researching or teaching literacy with one of the most academically authoritative and comprehensive works in the field. With expert contributors from across the world, the book represents a detailed and valuable overview of a complex area of study.