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Creative Writing Across the Curriculum: Meaningful literacy for college writers across disciplines, languages, and identities

Justin Nicholes

Situated among fields (applied linguistics, creative writing studies, writing studies), this book empirically explores the language of writers in contexts of learning externalized in literary genres. At its core, this book features linguistic and thematic analysis of the writing and reflections of… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 40] 2022. xvii, 225 pp.

Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention

Edited by Edy Veneziano and Ageliki Nicolopoulou

In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills.… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 25] 2019. xix, 318 pp.

Form-function Relations in Narrative Development: How Anna became a writer

E. Birgitta Svensson

This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts. The methodology draws from both a psycholinguistic approach to narrative development, systemic functional… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 24] 2018. xi, 297 pp.

Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing

Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė

This volume offers a fresh intercultural perspective on the discursive and rhetorical challenges non-Anglophone scholars face while writing and publishing in English for an international readership. The volume presents a wide spectrum of text-based intercultural analyses of academic texts written… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] 2018. x, 310 pp.

Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel

Edited by Dan Disney

Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] 2014. v, 157 pp.

Why Writing Matters: Issues of access and identity in writing research and pedagogy

Edited by Awena Carter, Theresa Lillis and Sue Parkin

This book brings together the work of scholars from around the world – UK, Pakistan, US, South Africa, Hungary, Korea, Mexico – to illustrate and celebrate the many ways in which Roz Ivanič has advanced the academic study of writing. Focusing on writing in different formal contexts of education,… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 12] 2009. xxxii, 254 pp.