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

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 Ivanic has advanced the academic study of writing. Focusing on writing in different formal contexts of education, from primary through to further and higher education in a range of national contexts, the twenty one original contributions in the book critically engage with theoretical and empirical issues raised in Ivanic’s influential body of work. In their exploration of writers’ struggles with the demands of dominant literacy the authors significantly extend understandings of writing practices in formal institutions. Organized around three themes central to Ivanic’s work – creativity and identity; pedagogy; and research methodologies – the twelve chapters and nine personal and scholarly reflections reveal the powerful ways in which Ivanic’s work has influenced thinking in the field of writing and continues to open up avenues for future questioning and research.

Table of contents

Preface. Roz Ivanic's writing and identity
David Barton

Introduction
Awena Carter

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

List of figures

Part I. Creativity and identity

Reflection 1. Writing a narrative of multiple voices
Courtney B. Cazden

Chapter 1. Writers and meaning making in the context of online learning
Mary R. Lea

Chapter 2. 'Wrighting' a multimodal text.
Sue Parkin

Reflection 2. Identity without identification
James Paul Gee

Chapter 3. Authoring research, plagiarising the self ?
Richard Edwards

Chapter 4. Creativity in academic writing: Escaping from the straitjacket of genre
Mary Hamilton and Kathy Pitt

Reflection 3. Overcoming barriers
Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu

Part II. Pedagogy

Reflection 4. Writing pictures, painting stories with Roz Ivanic
Denny Taylor

Chapter 5. Discourses of learning and teaching: A dyslexic child learning to write
Awena Carter

Chapter 6. Accommodation for success: Korean EFL students' writing practices in personal opinion writing
Younghwa Lee

Reflection 5. Collegiality and collaboration
Karin Tusting

Chapter 7. Advanced EFL students' revision practices throughout their writing process
David Camps

Chapter 8. Reconceptualising student writing: From conformity to heteroglossic complexity.
Mary Scott and Joan Turner

Reflection 6. Roz and critical language studies at Lancaster
Norman Fairclough

Part III. Methodology

Reflection 7. Sharing writing, sharing names
Hilary Janks

Chapter 9. Bringing writers' voices to writing research: Talk around texts
Theresa Lillis

Chapter 10. Listening to children think about punctuation
Nigel Hall and Sue Sing

Reflection 8. Ivanic and the joy of writing
David Russell

Chapter 11. Recontextualising classroom experience in undergraduate writing: An exploration using case study and linguistic analysis
Zsuzsanna Walko

Chapter 12. Researcher identity in the writing of collaborative-action research
Samina Amin Qadir

Reflection 9. An appreciation of Roz Ivanic
Brian Street

Works by Roz Ivanic referred to in this book.