History of Process Writing

  • Emig

    Defines pre-writing; case study of eight 12th grade students elements present in writing=present in prewriting; reformat their wriitng through revising and editing.
  • Graves

    Students write longer in informal settings.
  • Sommers

    More advanced writers use more advanced revision techniques.
  • Calkins: Process Writing

    Andrea goes through the writing process over a period of several months. The teacher is peripheral, and students can learn to revise their own work. Learning is innate. Natural writing instruction...not direct presentations.
  • Bereiter & Seardamalia

    grades 4 and 6; composed writing, tape recorder, and disctation. The most words with tape recorder and fewest with writing.
  • Sommers

    Lower lever writers make lower level revisions than do stronger writers
  • Hayes & Flower

    writing starts with long-term memory; topic knowledge, understanding of purpose, and ability to relate previous writing experiences begin to influence the current task. complex and recursive, practice of planning, translating, and reviewing. Writers continue to process the text they have written as they continue to write more, resulting in more. Ideas reviewing and monitoring. Setting goals and organzing writing is important.Ideas come before writing. Writing is recursive.
  • Flower & Hayes

    Writers begin their work with a plan; against current instructional practices of focusing on syntax and structure. Writing is recursive.
    Task environment, writer’s longterm memory, and writing processes (planning, translating, and reviewing).
  • Applebee

    Writing instruciton is presentational; limited peer discussion, mostly topic-centered **ordered text
  • Graves: Process Writing

    first-third grade students; writing process is made up of subprocesses (like topic selection, handwriitng, spelling, etc.); time & space: the page, the process, the information.; external to internal, speaking outloud to writing down; egocentric to sociocentric, writing for play to writing for others; explicit to implicit, almost like switching stance, moving from telling every detail to hiding meaning in writing; natural writing instruction
  • Applebee, Lehr, & Auten

    Students need a context for writing, and they should write to learn.
  • Petrosky

    Written responses make reading and writing more meaningful.
  • Hidi & Hildyard

    3rd and 5th grade students. When students have difficult writing, it may be because they have difficulty with the discourse itself, not the writing process. Write longer and more cohesviely with narrative and 5th over 3rd.
  • Graves

    Explains how process writing works in a classroom; student-centered
  • Salvatori

    Written responses make reading and writing more meaningful
  • Heath

    Writers as Ethnographers in Ways with Words; student-centered; complext reading and writing; 5th grade students
  • Sowers

    Sowers worked with Graves and Calkins on the Atkinson project in NH; writing cycle; students benefit from discussing their writing
  • Johnson & Johnson

    Coperative Learning
  • Center for the Study of Writing

    Its major initiatives were: inquiry learning, reading and writing and discourse and technology, and socio-cognitive theory development.
  • Hillocks

    Writes Research on Written Composition and explains the history of process writing from 1970-early 1980s
  • Calkins

    The Art of Teaching Writing; writers workshop text;how to
  • Calkins

    Writing workshop
  • Langer & Applebee

    How Writing Shapes Thinking; more learning occurs when the student and teacher are active than in a process writing approach.
  • Pappas &I Brown

    Children must understand reading before they can understand writing
  • Moll & Diaz

    Social contexts matter for students as they learn to read and write.
  • North

    North explains what studies about writing should look like. Critiques Emig 1971 among others
  • Slavin: Cooperative learning

  • Moll & Greenberg

    Funds of knowledge
  • Hansen & Graves

    Curriculum should change to reflect reading and writing together
  • Lave & Wenger

    communities of practice and situated learning
  • Calkins

    New edition of The Art of Teaching Writing; walks through writers workshop; mini-lessons; writing response grouops; using literature to guide writing
  • Lensmire

    Progressive writing
  • Delpit

    Progressive writing
  • Fountas, I. C., & Pinnell

    Students should participate in small group discussions about text. Children will develop literacy skills through center activities.
  • New London Group

    Reconceptualizing and redesigning literacy
  • Kamberelis

    Exposure to different genres when reading may account for students’ varying writing abilities across genre types.
  • Harris & Graham

    Self-Regulated Strategy Development model (SRSD)
  • Kamberelis, G., & Bovino

    Cultural artifacts may help students' reading and writing.
  • Lunsford

    Reading and discussing arguments while applying Toulmin’s model helped students’ develop their writing arguments.
  • Handbook of Writing Research 2nd ed

    Includes extensive information on applying sociocultural theory. Alos, includes technology and ELL.
  • Walsh

    Students worked together in a multimodal learning environment to create podcasts. They had to engage in reading, writing, speaking, listening, designing, and using to accomplish the tasks. Many of these occurred simultaneously. Moving forward the field needs strategies for interactions, not just strategies/theories for teaching and understanding reading and writing separately.
  • Kirkland & Jackson

    These students used popular culture to mediate school literacy activities. Example of applying multicultural education theory and multimodal social semiotics to reading and writing instruction.
  • Wickstrom, C., Patterson, L., & Isgitt, J.

    Culturally mediated writing instruction: CMWI
  • Purcell-Gates et al.

    Measuring situated literacy activity
  • Dutro et al

    Children's identities are influenced by being labeled non-proficient writers
  • NWP

    Continues to emphasize technology. Also emphasizes analytic writing.