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Research on composition : multiple perspectives on two decades of change

Covering the period between 1984 and 2003, this title features a focus that goes beyond the classroom teaching of writing to include teacher research, second-language writing, rhetoric, home and community literacy, workplace literacy, and histories of writing. It covers both conventional written composition and multimodal forms of composition.
Print Book, English, ©2006
Teachers College Press, New York, ©2006
v, 308 pages ; 26 cm.
9780807746370, 0807746371
1022623724
Overview / Peter Smagorinsky
Preschool through elementary writing / Marilyn Chapman
Middle and high school composition / George Hillocks, Jr
Writing at the postsecondary level / Russel K. Durst
Teacher research in writing classrooms / Bob Fecho ... [et al.]
Second-language composition teaching and learning / Hona Leki, Alister Cumming, and Tony Silva
Research in rhetoric / Victor Villanueva, C. Jan Swearingen, and Susan McDowell
Family and community literacies / Ellen Cushman ... [et al.]
Writing in the professions / Anne Beaufort
Historical studies of composition / David R. Russell