Handbook of Research on Writing

The Handbook of research on writing ventures to sum Up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: how do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and technologies do we use to write? How did our current forms and practices of writing emerge within social History? What impacts has writing had on society and the individual? What does it mean to be and to learn to be an active participant in contemporary systems of meaning? this cornerstone volume advances the field by aggregating the broad-ranging interdisciplinary multidimensional strands of writing research and bringing them together into a common intellectual space. Endeavour to synthesize what has been learned about writing in all nations in recent decades it reflects a wide scope of international research activity with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. Br>chapter authors all eminent researchers come from disciplines as diverse as anthropology archaeology typography communication studies linguistics journalism sociology rhetoric composition law medicine education history and literacy studies.