Writing as a learning activity / / edited by Perry D. Klein [and three others].

Writing as a learning activity offers an account of the potentials of writing as a tool for learning. Four aspects of writing emerge particularly clearly through the chapters. First, writing to learn depends on the cognitive strategies of the writer; instruction in such strategies contributes signif...

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Superior document:Studies in Writing, Volume 28
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in writing ; Volume 28.
Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter / Perry D. Klein , Pietro Boscolo , Lori C. Kirkpatrick and Carmen Gelati
  • New Directions in Writing as a Learning Activity / Perry D. Klein , Pietro Boscolo , Carmen Gelati and Lori C. Kirkpatrick
  • Writing to Argue: Writing as a Tool for Oral and Written Argumentation / Silvia Del Longo and Lerida Cisotto
  • Writing as a Vocabulary Learning Tool / Kenan Dikilitas and Jerome C. Bush
  • Supportive Writing Assignments for Less Skilled Writers in the Mathematics Classroom / Markus Linnemann and Sabine Stephany
  • Writing to Engage Students in Historical Reasoning / Jannet van Drie , Carla van Boxtel and Martine Braaksma
  • Writing to Learn from Multiple-Source Inquiry Activities in History / Jennifer Wiley , Brent Steffens , M. Anne Britt and Thomas D. Griffin
  • Strategy Instruction in Writing in Academic Disciplines / Charles A. MacArthur
  • Writing a Synthesis from Multiple Sources as a Learning Activity / Mar Mateos , Isabel Solé , Elena Martín , Isabel Cuevas , Mariana Miras and Nuria Castells
  • Summary Writing as a Tool for Improving the Comprehension of Expository Texts: An Intervention Study in a Primary School / Carmen Gelati , Nicoletta Galvan and Pietro Boscolo
  • Moving from “Fuzziness” to Canonical Knowledge: The Role of Writing in Developing Cognitive and Representational Resources / Brian Hand , Mary Grace Villanueva and Sae Yeol Yoon
  • Writing about Reading to Advance Thinking: A Study in Situated Cognitive Development / Charles Bazerman , Kelly Simon and Patrick Pieng
  • University Students’ Knowledge Construction during Face to Face Collaborative Writing / Minna Nykopp , Miika Marttunen and Leena Laurinen
  • Knowledge Construction in Collaborative Science Writing: Strategic Simplicity, Distributed Complexity, and Explanatory Sophistication / Perry D. Klein
  • References / Perry D. Klein , Pietro Boscolo , Lori C. Kirkpatrick and Carmen Gelati
  • Indexes / Perry D. Klein , Pietro Boscolo , Lori C. Kirkpatrick and Carmen Gelati.