Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Origins and forms of writing / Denise Schmandt-Besserat and Michael Erard -- History of writing technologies / Brian Gabrial -- History of typography / David Jury -- History of the book, authorship, book design , and publishing / David Finkelstein -- History of reflection, theory, and research on writing / Paul A. Prior and Karen J. Lunsford -- Writin g and the social formation of economy / Graham Smart -- On documentary society / Dorothy E. Smith and Catherine F. Schryer -- Writing, text, a nd the law / Peter Tiersma -- Writing and secular knowledge apart from modern European institutions / Charles Bazerman and Paul Rogers -- Writ ing and secular knowledge within modern European institutions / Charles Bazerman and Paul Rogers -- The collection and organization of written knowledge / Jack Anderson -- Writing as art and entertainment / Patric k Colm Hogan -- Writing and journalism : politics, social movement, and the public sphere / Martin Conboy -- Writing in the professions / Anne Beaufort -- History of writing in the community / Ursula Howard -- Wri ting, gender, and culture : an interdisciplinary perspective / Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau -- Writing and social change / Brenton Faber -- Histo ry of schools and writing / David R. Olsen -- Writing in primary school / Pietro Boscolo -- Writing in secondary schools / George Hillocks -- Teaching of writing in higher education / Richard H. Haswell -- Teachin g of writing and writing teachers through the ages / Duane Roen, Mauree n Daly Goggin, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon -- Construct and consequence : validity in writing assessment / Sandra Murphy and Kathleen Blake Yance y -- Teaching of writing and diversity : access, identity, and achievem ent / John Albertini -- Development of writing abilities in childhood / Deborah Wells Rowe -- Defining adolescent and adult writing developmen t : a contest of empirical and federal wills / Julie Cheville and Marga ret Finders -- The reading-writing nexus in composition research / Nanc y Nelson -- Writing and cognition : implications of the cognitive archi tecture for learning to write and writing to learn / Deborah McCutchen, Paul Teske, and Catherine Bankston -- Writing and communication disord ers across the life span / Julie A. Hengst and Cynthia J. Johnson -- Wr iting as physical and emotional healing : finding from clinical researc h / Jessica Singer and George H.S. Singer -- Identity and the writing o f culturally and linguistically diverse students / Arnetha F. Ball and Pamela Ellis -- Multilingual writing development / Dwight Atkinson and Ulla Connor -- Writing and speaking / Douglas Biber and Camilla Vâasque z -- Grammar, the sentence, and traditions of linguistic analysis / Mar y J. Schleppegrell -- Form, text organization, genre, coherence, and co hesion / Christine M. Tardy and John M. Swales -- Persuasion, audience, and argument / Carolyn R. Miller and Davida Charney -- Seeing the scre en : research into visual and digital writing practices / Anne Frances Wysocki.