Writing as a Learning Activity

• Main Authors: Klein, Perry, Boscolo, Pietro, Kirkpatrick, Lori, Gelati, Carmen
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2014; Brill
• Edition: 1
• Series: Studies in Writing
• Subjects: English language; Report writing; Rhetoric; Study and teaching

Writing as a learning activity offers an account of the potentials of writing as a powerful tool for facilitating learning and making it more profound and productive in a variety of disciplines and collaborative contexts at different school levels.

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Klein et al. - Introduction -- Del Longo/Cisotto - Writing to Argue: Writing as a Tool for Oral and Written Argumentation -- Diktilas/Bush - Writing as a Vocabulary Learning Tool -- Linnemann/Stephany - Supportive Writing Assignments for Less Skilled Writers in the Mathematics Classroom -- Van Drie/Boxtel/Braaksma - Writing to Engage Students in Historical Reasoning -- Wiley/Steffens/Britt/Griffin - Writing to Learn from Multiple-Source Inquiry Activities in History -- MacArthur - Strategy Instruction in Writing in Academic Disciplines -- Mateos et al. - Writing a Synthesis from Multiple Sources as a Learning Activity -- Gelati/Galvan/Boscolo - Summary Writing as a Tool for Improving the Comprehension of Expository Texts: An Intervention Study in a Primary School -- Hand/Villanueva/Yoon - Moving from "Fuzziness" to Canonical Knowledge: The Role of Writing in Developing Cognitive and Representational Resources -- Bazerman/Simon/Pieng - Writing about Reading to Advance Thinking: A Study in Situated Cognitive Development -- Nykopp/Marttunen/Laurinen - University Students' Knowledge Construction during Face-to-Face Collaborative Writing -- Klein - Knowledge Construction in Collaborative Science Writing: Strategic Simplicity, Distributed Complexity, and Explanatory Sophistication -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index