The Structure of Written Communication

Studies in Reciprocity Between Writers and Readers
Erscheinungsjahr 1986
ISBN: 978-0-12-523482-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it.

Key - Reciprocity as a principle of discourse
- Language development as socialization
- Context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as concepts in discourse analysis
- Writing and reading as social processes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nystrand, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Writing:

Philosophical Assumptions Inherent in Current Cognitive Models of Writing.
Reciprocity as a Principle of Discourse.
What Writers Do.

M. Nystrand, A. Doyle, and M. Himley, A Critical Examination of the Doctrine of Autonomous Texts.
Necessary Text Elaborations.

Learning to Write:

M. Himley, Genre as Generative: One Perspective on One Child's Early Writing Growth.
Where do the Spaces Go?
The Development of Word Segmentation in the Bissex Texts.
Learning to Write by Talking about Writing: A Summary of Research on Intensive Peer Review in Expository Writing Instruction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
References.
Index.