Why do we write as we write? / edited by Sergio Tavares.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Filho, Sergio, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Writing.

Writing--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary volume answers questions, such as: What is motivating us? What are the outcomes of our writing experiences? How do we improve them? What are the challenges? The activity of writing has been observed here from, mainly, two different perspectives: writing as self- discovery on a predominantly institutional level, and w

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Sérgio Tavares

Writing Development Before School through the Lens of a ‘Lived Experience’ Methodology / Phil Fitzsimmons

Tales from an Eighth-Grade Writer / Camille W. Butler

An Overview of Writing Instruction and Assessment / Mandana Yousefi

Power of the Pen / Kaye Lowe and James Hughes

Writing the Teaching Self: The Narrative of Inquiry / Philip Deally and Peter Charles Taylor

The Six Basic Plots of Teaching: Rhetoric of the Teaching Portfolio / Peter Kandlbinder

Writing Performance and Writing Self-Efficacy: The Case of Finnish Fifth Graders / Sara Routarinne and Pilvikki Absetz

When Language Was a Scientific Tool: Rhetoric as a Means of Knowledge / Moreno Bonda

Boundaries between Informative and Creative Writing in Children’s Literature / Mehdi Hejvani

Writing Drives and Creative Writing Instruction / Johanna Pentikäinen

Writing across the Disciplines: Theory and Practice / Vijay Mehta

Cosmic Dreaming: The ‘Triple Liaison’ of Memory, Imagination and Poetry in Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Reverie / Anna MacDonald

Writing in Social Media / Sérgio Tavares.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-205-X

OCLC:

1096222753

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882058 DOI