Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing: A Handbook of Writing in Education (Paperback, 2)

Effective learning and teaching of writing: student involvement in the teaching of writing.- emergent writing in kindergarten and the emergence of the alphabetic principle.- looking at reading and writing through language.- rewriting to introduce punctuation in the second grade: a didactic approach.- contextual factors enhancing cognitive and metacognitive activity during the process of collaborative writing.- Metacognitive regulations, peer interactions and revision of narratives by sixth graders.- The directivity of teacher strategies in collaborative writing tasks.- Making digital annotations using the world wide web.- Popular culture: a resource for writing in secondary English classrooms.- The garden of thought - about writing poems in upper secondary school.- Using a structured writing workshop to help good readers who are poor writers.- Deaf ways of writing narratives: a bilingual approach.- Stylistic imitation as a tool in writing pedagogy.- Improving argumentative writing by fostering argumentative speech.- Monitoring local coherence through bridging integration.- Learning to write instructive texts by reader observation and written feedback.- Learning to read and write argumentative text by observation of peer learners.- The uptake of peer-based intervention in the writing classroom.- Teaching writing: using research to inform practice.- Impact of regular philosophical discussion on argumentative skills: reflection about education in primary schools.- Action research: a study on using an integrative-narrative method to teach l2 writing in a Hong Kong primary school.- Teaching how to write argumentative texts at primary school.- Teaching writing: teaching oral presentation.- Writing to learn: constructing the concept of genre in a writing.- Writing 'in your own words': children's use of information sources in research projects.- Metacognition to learn how to write texts at school and to develop motivation to do it.- Fostering novices' ability towrite informative texts.- Adapting to the classroom setting: new research on teachers moving between traditional and computer classrooms.- Assessment of argumentative writing.- Digital information literacy: teaching students to use the internet in source-based writing.- 'Down the plughole': the pitfalls of testing the writing of l2 pupils.- Composing a summary.- Enhancing thinking dispositions through informal writing: Experiences in science classes.- Fostering reflective writing by structuring writing-to-learn tasks.- Reflective writing & reflective thinking: the implications of introducing reflective practice into a professional doctorate programme in pharmacy.- Writing to learn: conducting a process log.- Learning by writing hypertext: a research based design of university courses in writing hypertext.- The effect of student prior experience, attitudes, and approaches on performance in an undergraduate science writing program.- Children's writing strategies: profiles of writers.- Writing-to-learn and graph-drawing as aids of the integration of text and graphs.- References.- Author index.- Subject index.- List of contributors.