ABSTRACT

This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy, unified, and comprehensive source of information to satisfy their interest. The goal of this book is to fill this void by reflecting on the phenomenon of writing from a developmental perspective. It contains an integrated set of chapters devoted to issues of writing: how writing develops, how it is and should be taught and how writing paths of development differ across writing genres. Specifically, the book addresses typologies of writing; pathways of the development of writing skills; stages of the development of writing; individual differences in the acquisition of writing skills; writing ability and disability; teaching writing; and the development and demonstration of expertise in writing.

part I|43 pages

The Origins of Writing

chapter 2|25 pages

The Cultural Evolution of Written Language and Its Effects

A Darwinian Process From Prehistory to the Modern Day

chapter 3|7 pages

Language, Literacy, and Mind

The Literacy Hypothesis *

part 2|61 pages

Writing and Human Development

part 3|66 pages

Working Memory and Expertise in Writing

part 5|67 pages

Creativity and Emotions in Writing

chapter 16|15 pages

The Creative Writer and Mental Health

The Importance of Domains and Style

chapter 17|17 pages

Seeing, Connecting, Writing

Developing Creativity and Narrative Writing in Children

part 6|60 pages

Disorder of Written Language

part 7|29 pages

Group Testing and Assessment of Skill and Competence in Writing

chapter 23|14 pages

Large-scale Online Writing Assessments

New Approaches Adopted in the National Assessment of Educational Progress

chapter 24|14 pages

Design of a College-level Test of Written Communication

Theoretical and Methodological Challenges

part 8|60 pages

Testimonials

chapter 25|12 pages

Burning Down the House

Ethics and Reception in Poetry Translation

chapter 26|13 pages

Bringing Redemption to the World

A Translation Sampler *

chapter 27|10 pages

A Narrator's Testimony

Between Reading, Writing, and Displacements

chapter 29|10 pages

Twelve Hundred Publications Later

Reflections on a Career of Writing in Psychology