Writing Development : An interdiscipliry view

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network "Written Language and Literacy" as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up are: (1) , with contributions by David R. Olson, Cre Blanche-Benveniste, Emilia Ferreiro, Ruth Berman, Lilia Tolchinsky & A Teberosky; (2) , with contributions by Collette Sirat, Françoise Desbordes, Harmut Günther, Peter Koch, & Jean Hébrard: (3) , with contributions by Michel Fayol & Serge Mouchon, Georges Lüdi, & Ludo Verhoeven; (4) , with contributions by Giuseppe Cossu, Heinz Wimmer & Uta Frith, & Brian Butterworth. The volume heads off with an extensive introduction "Studying writing and writing acquisition today: A multidiscipliry view". [Publisher's text]