Learning to Write/Writing to Learn

Books and articles on writing and learning

Illustration by Christopher Baldwin.

Andrews, R. (1995). Teaching and Learning Argument. Cassell Education.

Blakeslee, A.M. (2001). Interacting with Audiences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Brandt, D. (1995). 'Accumulating literacy: Writing and learning to write in the twentieth century'. College English, 57: 649-668.

Britton, J. (1970). Language and Learning. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook.

Britton, J., Burgess, T., Martin, N., McLeod, A. and Rosen, H. (1975). The Development of Writing Abilities 11-18. Macmillan Education.

Cherry, R. (1988). 'Ethos vs. Persona: Self-Representation in Written Discourse'. Written Communication, 5,3: 251-76.

Czerniewska, P. (1992). Learning about Writing. Blackwell.

Elbow, P. (2000). Everyone Can Write. Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Elbow, P. (2006). 'The Music of Form: Rethinking Organization' in College Composition and Communication, 57,4: 620-666. See my blog here for a discussion of this paper.

Emig, J. (1971). The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders. NCTE.

Flower, L. (1994). The construction of negotiated meaning: A social cognitive theory of writing. Carbondale: SIU Press

*Fulwiler, T. eds. (1987). The Journal Book. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook.

Haas, Christina. (1994). 'Reading biology: One student's rhetorical development in college'. Written Communication, 11: 43-84

Hasan, R. and Williams, G. eds. (1996). Literacy in Society. Longman.

Herrington, A. and Curtis, M. (2000). Persons in Process. Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College. NCTE.

Ivanič, R. (2004). ‘Discourses of writing and learning to write’, Language and Education 18 (3): 220 – 245. See also notes from 2003 Learning Conference, London, 'The Teaching of "Wrighting": Literacy Education in a Multimodal World'. Six 'discourses' of writing pedagogy: skills, creativity, process, genre, social practices, socio-political.

Kress, G. (1994). Learning to Write (Second Edition). Routledge.

Langer, J. and Applebee, A. (1987). How Writing Shapes Thinking: a Study of Teaching and Learning. Urbana, Il: NCTE.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1987). 'From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle'. College English, 49,4: 437-48.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1990). 'Writing as Repositioning'. Journal of Education, 172,1: 18-21.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1991). 'Redefining the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy: a Critique of the Politics of Linguistic Innocence'. Journal of Basic Writing, 10,1: 26-40.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (1994). 'Professing Multiculturalism: the Politics of Style in the Contact Zone'. College Composition and Communication, 45,4: 442-58.

Mitchell, S. and Riddle, M. (2000). Improving the Quality of Argument in Higher Education. Middlesex University School of Lifelong Learning and Education.

Mitchell, S. (1996). The Teaching and Learning of Argument in Sixth Forms and Higher Education. Middlesex University.

Perera, K. (1984). Children's Writing and Reading: Analysing Classroom Language. Blackwell.

G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, M. Couzijn eds. (1996). Effective Teaching and Learning of Writing. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, M. Couzijn eds. (1996). Theories, Models and Methodology in Writing Research. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, M. Couzijn eds. (2005). Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

Winsor, D. A. (1996). Writing like an engineer: A rhetorical education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Zamel, V. and Spack, R. eds. (1998). Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures. Lawrence Erlbaum.

On Alternative Discourse

*Eldred, J.C. (2004). Sentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook/Heinemann.

On the patchwork text: see this Guardian article and the abstracts in the 2003 Innovations in Education and Teaching International collection here. Article on the patchwork text by Richard Winter here.

On L2 Writing

Matsuda, P.K., Cox, M, Jordan, J. and Ortmeier-Hooper, C. eds. (2006). Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Bedford/St Martins Press/NCTE.

Silva, T. and Matsuda, P.K. eds. (2001). On Second Language Writing. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Online

Lots of resources at Paul Matsuda's website including large bib at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~pmatsuda/index2.html.

Science writing - huge list of links at Chemistry Coach

Gothenburg University Project Learning to Write in the Information Society.

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Creativity

Carter, R. (2004). Language and Creativity: the Art of Common Talk. Routledge.

Pope, R. (2005). Creativity: Theory, History, Practice. Routledge.