The Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity Between Writers and Readers

by Martin Nystrand

This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it. It includes key features such as: reciprocity as a principle of discourse; language development as socialization; context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as concepts in discourse analysis; and writing and reading as social processes.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2003