Exploring the Dynamics of Second Language Writing

Part I. Exploring the Field of Second Language Writing: Section introduction 1. Second language writing in the twentieth century: a situated historical perspective 2. Research on second language writing: an overview of what we investigate and how Part II. Exploring the Voices of Key Stakeholders: Teachers and Students Section Introduction: 3. Experienced ESL/EFL Writing Instructors' conceptualizations of their teaching: Curriculum options and implications 4. Second language writing up close and personal: some success stories Part III. Exploring Writers' Finished Texts: Section introduction 5. Responding to writing 6. Grammar and the ESL writing class 7. Writing teachers as assessors of writing Part IV. Exploring Contextualities of Texts: Section introduction 8. Genre and ESL/EFL composition instruction 9. Changing currents in contrastive rhetoric: implications for teaching and research 10. Reading and writing relations: L2 perspectives on research and practice 11. Literature in the teaching of L2 composition Part V. Exploring Technology: Section introduction 12. The impact of the computer in second language writing Epilogue: exploring ourselves: Section introduction 13. A challenge to L2 writing professionals: is writing overrated?

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