Handbook of Writing Research
Second Edition
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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
Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Third Edition, edited by Steve Graham, Charles A. MacArthur, and Michael Hebert, an accessible course text and practitioner's guide.
“This book as a whole is an amazing tour de force. Every chapter is informative, detailed, and instructive....Essential reading for those in the field, for those who want to know about it, and for those who want to join in.”
—PsycCRITIQUES (on the first edition)
“This handbook offers welcome breadth in its consideration of writing instruction and assessment from cognitive, neuropsychological, pedagogical, and sociocultural perspectives. Updates in the second edition include useful chapters on the use of computerized tutoring and other cutting-edge issues. There is also new information on research methods, teaching writing to English language learners, and more. The inclusion of such topics as writing to learn, argumentative writing, and the relationship between writing and reading is consistent with the Common Core English Language Arts standards. Many of the contributors are prominent writing researchers. The volume is comprehensive and has good potential as a text in graduate programs in literacy and educational psychology.”
—Dolores Perin, PhD, Teachers College, Columbia University
“Anyone who wants to keep up with the rapidly evolving field of writing research will welcome this extensively revised second edition. An attractive text for graduate courses, the book provides students with a valuable survey of the field. Most chapters are entirely new; the few that are not have been updated to account for recent findings. The authors represent diverse points of view on writing research and offer lucid accounts of their perspectives. Of special note are chapters that provide thoughtful challenges to widely accepted beliefs about writing, such as Mark Torrance’s persuasive critique of accepted wisdom about planning and Richard Hudson’s case for the importance of teaching grammar.”
—John R. Hayes, PhD, Department of Psychology (Emeritus), Carnegie Mellon University
“The theoretical and methodological lenses represented in the second edition range widely, and analytical tools that technology has enabled are discussed. More embracing of international and newer scholars than its predecessor, the volume offers readers the opportunity not only to pursue their main interests, but also to sample—and perhaps delve into—additional areas. Among the notable additions is a chapter on professional development, a key topic given efforts internationally to raise student writing performance. This is a book that invites revisiting.”
—Judy M. Parr, PhD, Head of School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
“This updated and expanded second edition is as comprehensive as its predecessor. What sets this volume apart from other handbooks is its vast array of perspectives from around the globe, including both veteran researchers and rising scholars. A 'must read' for advanced graduate students and writing researchers alike.”
—Susan De La Paz, PhD, College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park
“This singular volume attests to the maturity and breadth of writing research. MacArthur, Graham, and Fitzgerald have gone to great lengths to achieve this impressive roadmap. The volume presents deep theoretical understandings, multifaceted views on typical and atypical writing development, cutting-edge analytic tools, and evidence-based, insightful instructional approaches. It provides literacy scholars, students, and practitioners with a blueprint and the necessary wisdom to confront the challenges of writing instruction in the 21st century.”
—Rui A. Alves, PhD, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
Table of Contents
Introduction, Charles A. MacArthur, Steve Graham, and Jill Fitzgerald
I. Theories and Models of Writing
1. What Do Sociocultural Studies of Writing Tell Us about Learning to Write?, Charles Bazerman
2. Writing Research from a Cognitive Perspective, Charles A. MacArthur and Steve Graham
3. Writing Research from a New Literacies Lens, Donald J. Leu, David Slomp, Lisa Zawilinski, and Julie Corrigan
II. Writing Development
4. Writing Process Theory: A Functional Dynamic Approach, Huub van den Bergh, Gert Rijlaarsdam, and Elke van Steendam
5. Understanding Planning in Text Production, Mark Torrance
6. A Sociocultural Perspective on Writing Development: Toward an Agenda for Classroom Research on Students' Use of Social Practices, Richard Beach, George E. Newell, and Jennifer VanDerHeide
7. After Writing, After School, Katherine Schultz, Glynda A. Hull, and Jennifer Higgs
8. The Development of Multileveled Writing Systems of the Brain: Brain Lessons for Writing Instruction, Karin H. James, R. Joanne Jao, and Virginia Berninger
9. From Language to Text: The Development and Learning of Translation, Michel Fayol
10. From Text to Language and Back: The Emergence of Written Language, Liliana Tolchinsky
11. Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Motivation in Writing Development, Roger H. Bruning and Douglas F. Kauffman
12. Self-Regulation and Writing: Meta-Analysis of the Self-Regulation Processes in Zimmerman and Risemberg's Model, Tanya Santangelo, Karen R. Harris, and Steve Graham
13. Relationships between Reading and Writing Development, Timothy Shanahan
III. Instruction in Writing
14. Evidence-Based Practice and Writing Instruction: A Review of Reviews, Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris, and Amber B. Chambers
15. New Developments in Genre-Based Literacy Pedagogy, David Rose
16. Writing to Learn, Perry D. Klein, Nina Arcon, and Samanta Baker
17. Sociocultural Approaches to High School Writing Instruction: Examining the Roles of Context, Positionality, and Power, Michelle Nguyen Kwok, Exequiel Ganding III, Glynda A. Hull, and Elizabeth Birr Moje
18. Instruction in Evaluation and Revision, Charles A. MacArthur
19. Grammar Instruction, Richard Hudson
20. Argumentative Writing, Ralph P. Ferretti and Yueyue Fan
21. Computer-Based Writing Instruction, Laura K. Allen, Matthew E. Jacovina, and Danielle S. McNamara
22. The Role of Professional Development for Enhancing Writing Instruction, Sarah J. McCarthey and Cristin M. Geoghegan
IV. Writing and Special Populations
23. Writing Development and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: Using Diagnostic Categories to Study Writing Difficulties, Vince Connelly and Julie Dockrell
24. Writing Development and Instruction for English Language Learners, Alister Cumming
25. Teaching Writing in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms, Valerie Kinloch and Tanja Burkhard
V. Analytic Tools for Writing Research
26. Automated Writing Evaluation: An Expanding Body of Knowledge, Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein, Norbert Elliot, Shayne Miel, and Peter W. Foltz
27. Keystroke Logging in Writing Research: Analyzing Online Writing Processes, Luuk Van Waes, Mariëlle Leijten, Eva Lindgren, and Ása Wengelin
28. Linguistic Analysis Tools, Pablo Pirnay-Dummer
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
Charles A. MacArthur, PhD, is Professor of Special Education and Literacy in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. His major research interests include writing development and instruction for struggling writers, development of self-regulated strategies, adult literacy, and applications of technology to support reading and writing. Currently he is coprincipal investigator of a research project evaluating a curriculum for college developmental writing courses based on self-regulated strategy instruction. He is coeditor of the
Journal of Writing Research and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. Dr. MacArthur has published over 100 articles and book chapters and coedited or coauthored several books, including
Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Third Edition;
Handbook of Writing Research, Second Edition; and
Developing Strategic Writers through Genre Instruction.
Steve Graham, EdD, is the Warner Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. He is also Research Professor in the Learning Science Institute at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Dr. Graham is editor of the
Journal of Educational Psychology. He has coedited several books, including
Handbook of Writing Research, Second Edition;
Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition; and
Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Second Edition; and is the coauthor of three influential Carnegie Corporation reports: Writing Next, Writing to Read, and Informing Writing. Dr. Graham has received numerous awards, including the Career Research Award from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the Kauffman–Hallahan Distinguished Researcher Award from the CEC Division of Research, the Samuel A. Kirk Award from the CEC Division of Learning Disabilities, the Distinguished Researcher Award from the special education interest group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the Wiederholt Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Council of Learning Disabilities. He is a fellow of the AERA and the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities.
Jill Fitzgerald, PhD, is Research Professor and Professor Emerita at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former primary-grades teacher and reading specialist, she conducts research on literacy issues for multilingual learners, understanding text complexity, and vocabulary measurement. Dr. Fitzgerald is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a recipient of research awards from Phi Delta Kappa, the International Reading Association, and the AERA. With more than 100 publications, she is associate editor of the
Journal of Educational Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. She has also been a review panelist for the Office of Education, the Institute of Education, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute for Literacy.
Contributors
Laura K. Allen, MA, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona
Nina Arcon, BA, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Samanta Baker, BA, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Charles Bazerman, PhD, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Richard Beach, PhD, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Virginia Berninger, PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Roger H. Bruning, PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Tanja Burkhard, MA, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Jill Burstein, PhD, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
Amber B. Chambers, MEd, Learning, Literacies, and Technology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Vince Connelly, PhD, Department of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Julie A. Corrigan, BA, Department of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alister Cumming, PhD, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Julie Dockrell, PhD, Department of Psychology and Human Development, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Norbert Elliot, PhD, Department of Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Yueyue Fan, BA, School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Michel Fayol, PhD, Social and Cognitive Psychology Department, Blaise Pascal University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Ralph P. Ferretti, PhD, School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Jill Fitzgerald, PhD, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Peter W. Foltz, PhD, Pearson Knowledge Technologies, Boulder, Colorado
Exequiel Ganding III, MA, Language, Literacy, and Culture, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Cristin M. Geoghegan, MA, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Steve Graham, EdD, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Karen R. Harris, EdD, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Jennifer Higgs, MS, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Richard Hudson, PhD, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Glynda A. Hull, PhD, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Matthew E. Jacovina, PhD, Learning Sciences Institute, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona
Karin H. James, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
R. Joanne Jao, BS, BA, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Douglas F. Kauffman, PhD, Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Valerie Kinloch, PhD, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Perry D. Klein, PhD, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Michelle Nguyen Kwok, MA, School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mariëlle Leijten, PhD, Department of Management, University of Antwerp, and Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Antwerp, Belgium
Donald J. Leu, PhD, Professor of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Eva Lindgren, PhD, Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Charles A. MacArthur, PhD, School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Sarah J. McCarthey, PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Danielle S. McNamara, PhD, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona
Shayne Miel, BS, Turnitin, LLC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Birr Moje, PhD, School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
George E. Newell, PhD, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Pablo Pirnay-Dummer, PhD, Department of Educational Science, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Gert Rijlaarsdam, PhD, Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
David Rose, PhD, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Tanya Santangelo, PhD, School of Education, Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania
Katherine Schultz, PhD, School of Education, Mills College, Oakland, California
Timothy Shanahan, PhD, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Mark D. Shermis, PhD, School of Education, University of Houston–Clear Lake, Houston, Texas
David Slomp, PhD, Department of Education, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Liliana Tolchinsky, PhD, Department of General Linguistics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Mark Torrance, PhD, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Huub van den Bergh, PhD, Department of Language, Literature and Communication (Dutch), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jennifer VanDerHeide, PhD, Teacher Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Elke van Steendam, PhD, Faculty of Arts, KULeuven, Brussels, Belgium
Luuk Van Waes, PhD, Department of Management, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Åsa Wengelin, PhD, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Lisa Zawilinski, PhD, Department of Education, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut
Audience
Teacher educators, researchers, K–12 classroom teachers, graduate students in education.
Course Use
Serves as a text in graduate-level courses on writing instruction.
Previous editions published by Guilford:
First Edition, © 2006
ISBN: 9781593857509
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.