Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Social Meanings in Contexts.- Sociocultural Differences in Children’s Genre Knowledge.- Enculturation to Institutional Writing.- Whole-Class and Peer Interaction in an Activity of Writing and Revision.- Co-Constructing Writing Contexts in Classrooms.- Prior Knowledge and the (RE)Production of School Written Genres.- Student Writing as Negotiation.- Writing from Sources in two Cultural Contexts.- First and Second Language Use During Planning Processes.- Collaborative Writing Groups in the College Classroom.- Reaching Out from the Writing Classroom.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This edited volume contains ten papers which present research carried a ] in a variety of educational settings and research approaches, and held together by the common theme of writing as sociocultural practice. It is the sixteenth of an international book series focusing on studies in writing aimed at researchers and practitioners working in the broad field of education. a ] Overall, this is a volume which has much to offer anyone interested in how and why students produce the texts they do." (Vera Sheridan, The Linguist List, February, 2008)