Writing: The Nature, Development, and Teaching of Written Communication

by M. Farr Whiteman

Overview

First Published in 1982. This is Volume 1 of a series on Writing, the nature, development and teaching of written communication and focuses on Variation in Writing: Functional and linguistic-Cultural Differences. The theme of these two volumes, broadly defined, might best be phrased as two questions: How can we learn more about writing? and How can we learn more about the interaction between teaching to write and learning to write? The papers in these two volumes were originally prepared in draft form for the National Institute of Education's first Conference on Writing in June, 1977.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135875497
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Edited by Marcia Farr Whiteman, National Institute of Education

Table of Contents

Introduction, Marcia Farr Whiteman, William S. Hall; Part 1 Socio-Cultural Functions of Writing; Chapter 1 The Ethnography of Literacy, John F. Szwed; Chapter 2 Toward an Ethnohistory of Writing in American Education, Shirley Brice Heath; Chapter 3 The Status of Writing in our Society, Edward P. J. Corbett; Chapter 4 The Status and Politics of Writing Instruction, Richard Hendrix; Chapter 5 Unpackaging Literacy, Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole; Chapter 6 From Oral to Written Culture, Jenny Cook-Gumperz, John J. Gumperz; Chapter 7 The Voice of Varied Linguistic and Cultural Groups in Fiction, Elizabeth Closs Traugott; Part 2 Language Differences and Writing; Chapter 8 Teaching Teachers about Teaching Writing to Students from Varied Linguistic Social and Cultural Groups, Carol E. Reed; Chapter 9 Dialect Influence in Writing, Marcia Farr Whiteman; Chapter 10 Identity, Power and Writing Skills, Concepción M. Valadez; Chapter 11 The Written English of Deaf Adolescents, Veda R. Charrow; Chapter 12 Practical Aspects of Teaching Composition to Bidialectal Students, Shirley A. Lewis; Chapter 13 Bias in Composition Tests with Suggestions for a Culturally Appropriate Assessment Technique, Mary Rhodes Hoover, Robert L. Politzer;