Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. General Introduction -- Chapter 2. Children's Composing: A Study into the Relationships between Planning and Revision Skills, Writing Processes, Text Quality, and Linguistic Skills -- Chapter 3. Composing: Individual Differences in the Writing Process of Students in Special and Regular Education -- Chapter 4. Individual Differences in Writing Performance: The Relation between Generating, Structuring, Formulating and the Resulting Text -- Chapter 5. Cognitive Activities in Revision: The Writing Performance of 12-Year Old Students -- Chapter 6. Writing Ability: The Influence of Linguistic Skills on the Writing Process -- Chapter 7. General Discussion -- Bibliography -- Author Index.

In this volume a relatively new approach to writing process research is attempted; time is included as a very important factor in describing the writing process. The link between the writing process of 12-year old students, the quality of the compositions, and writing skills is investigated in six studies, discussing the importance of genre knowledge, linguistic skills, and cognitive skills in writing. Including linguistic and cognitive skills gives new perspectives on the relationship between the writing process and the resulting composition. The concepts used in these studies are drawn from the fields of both linguistics and cognitive psychology.

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