This article discusses five trends in research on writing as a learning activity. Firstly, earlier
decades were marked by conflicting views about the effects of writing on learning; in the past …

Acquiring argumentative reading and writing practices reflects a key component of recent
curricular reforms in schools and universities throughout the United States and the world as …

We wish to sincerely thank Danielle Descoteaux, Senior Acquisitions Editor for Wiley‐
Blackwell, for her vision, for her invitation to edit a handbook on bilingual and multilingual …

Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an
accelerating knowledge economy and sophisticated communication networks. These …

This article develops a theoretical understanding of the processes involved in the co-
construction of a written text by a teacher and student from a Vygotskian perspective …

Content marketing involves creating content in genres that readers find useful. These genres
individually do not persuade their readers to buy a given product and may not even mention …

Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL) is a functional model of language and social
context, founded on and elaborating the insights of MAK Halliday and his colleagues …

American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language
nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the …

Popular genres of social software increasingly act as regularized discourse within
organizations. Recently, image-intensive social software applications have seen rapid …

Global issues and challenges, an increased turnover rate of knowledge production and
networked technologies challenge educational research, systems, and practices worldwide …