Writing: A Mosaic of New Perspectives

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WRITING: A Mosaic of New Perspectives
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Contents
Preface
Editor Bios
Contributors
Part I
 The Origins of Writing
	1  Tokens as Precursors of Writing
	2  The Cultural Evolution of  Written Language and Its Effects: A Darwinian Process From Prehistory to the Modern Day
	3
 Language, Literacy, and Mind: The Literacy Hypothesis
Part II
 Writing and Human Development
	4  The Interrelationship of Child Development and Written Language Development
	5
 What Writing Is and How It Changes Across Early and Middle Childhood Development: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
	6
 The Writing Brain of Normal Child Writers and Children With Writing Disabilities: Generating Ideas and Transcribing Them Through the Orthographic Loop
Part III
 Working Memory and Expertise in Writing
	7
 The Development of Writing Expertise
	8
 Writing and Working Memory: A Summary of Theories and Findings
	9
 Towards a Dynamic Approach of How Children and Adults Manage Text Production
	10
 Descriptive Writing
Part IV
 The Teaching of Writing
	11
 Development of Ideational Writing Through Knowledge Building: Theoretical and Empirical Bases
	12
 Creative Writing as an Assessment of Content
	13
 Improving the Writing Skills of College Students
	14
 Second Language Writing Processes Among Adolescent and Adult Learners
Part V
 Creativity and Emotions in Writing
	15 
Themes in the Lives of Creative Writers
	16
 The Creative Writer and Mental Health: The Importance of Domains and Style
	17
 Seeing, Connecting, Writing: Developing Creativity and Narrative Writing in Children
	18
  The Role of Affect in Students’ Writing for School
Part VI
 Disorder of Written Language: Diagnostic Criteria, Prevalence, and Biological Bases
	19
 Neuropsychology of Writing
	20
 Written Expression as a Neuropsychological Nexus: A Working Clinical Theory
	21
 The Effect of Language and Orthography on Writing Disabilities and the Necessity for Cross-Linguistic Research
	22
 A Model of Writing Chinese Characters: Data From Acquired Dysgraphia and Writing Development
Part VII
 Group Testing and Assessment of Skill and Competence in Writing
	23
 Large-Scale Online Writing Assessments: New Approaches Adopted in the National Assessment of Educational Progress
	24
  Design of a College-Level Test of Written Communication: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
Part VIII
 Testimonials
	25
 Burning Down the House: Ethics and Reception in Poetry Translation
	26 Bringing Redemption to the World: A Translation Sampler
	27
 A Narrator’s Testimony: Between Reading, Writing, and Displacements
	28
 The Story Behind My Being a Writer
	29
 Twelve Hundred Publications Later: Reflections on a Career of Writing in Psychology
Author Index
Subject Index