Learning to Write Effectively: Current Trends in European Research (Studies in Writing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780529287 ISBN 13: 9781780529288

Publisher: Brill, 2012

Synopsis

This book provides a detailed overview of current or recent research exploring a wide range of ideas, theories, and practices around written text production. European researchers from a broad range of disciplines brought together under the European Research Network on Learning to Write Effectively were instructed to contribute short papers summarising their current activity. The papers are grouped around the four main themes. The first deals with issues around the development of basic ("low-level") writing skills, mainly in the early years of education. The second section focuses directly on issues around the teaching and learning of writing. This is divided into five parts that describe: evaluations of different forms of writing instruction, research exploring the processes by which writers learn, methods of text assessment in educational contexts, research exploring the effects of various learner and teacher variables on the development of writing skill, and conceptions of and variation in educational text genres. The third section reports research exploring effective document design. The final section has a main focus on tools for exploring the writing process.

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About the Author

Mark Torrance - Nottingham Trent University, UK
Denis Alamargot - University of Poitiers, France
Montserrat Castello - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
Franck Ganier - European University of Brittany, France and University of Brest, France
Otto Kruse - Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780529287
• ISBN 13: 9781780529288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 461
• Editor: Torrance Mark, Alamargot Denis, Castelló Montserrat, Ganier Franck, Kruse Otto, Mangen Anne, Tolchinsky Liliana, Van Waes Luuk