Date: 20-Sep-2005 From: Elizabeth Gangeri <Elizabeth.Gangerierlbaum.com> Subject: Second Language Writing Research: Matsuda, Silva (Eds)
Title: Second Language Writing Research
Subtitle: Perspectives on the Process of Knowledge Construction
Published: 2005
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
http://www.erlbaum.com/
Editor: Paul Kei Matsuda, University of New Hampshire
Editor: Tony Silva, Purdue University
Hardback: ISBN: 0805850457 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 79.95
Paperback: ISBN: 0805850465 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 29.95
Abstract:
In this original volume, eighteen researchers from different parts of the world reflect on their own research projects, providing insights into key methodological issues in research on second language writing. By offering a glimpse into the process of constructing and negotiating knowledge in the field--the messy space of situated practices of inquiry--it helps to demystify the research process, which can appear in published studies and in introductory methodology guides to be neater and more orderly than it actually is.