Reading empirical research studies : the rhetoric of research / edited by John R. Hayes ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-565) and index.

What happens when our students read, and what can we do about it? / Russell A. Hunt -- The art of rhetoric at the Amphiareion of Oropos / Richard Leo Enos -- This was an easy assignment : examining how students interpret academic writing tasks / Jennie Nelson -- "Shared information" : some observations of communication in Japanese technical settings / Christina Haas and Jeffrey L. Funk -- Designing for the real world : using research to turn a "target audience" into real people / Michael Floriak -- The achievement of preschool literacy for mother and child / Shirley Brice Heath with Charlene Thomas -- The frequency and placement of topic sentences in expository prose / Richard Braddock -- The frequency and placement of main ideas in children's social studies textbooks : a modified replication of Braddock's research on topic sentences / James F. Bauman and Judith K. Serra.

Expertise in news writing / Gary Schumacher ... [and others] -- The importance of teacher knowledge in college composition placement testing / William L. Smith -- How characteristics of student essays influence teachers' evaluations ; Why do teachers give the grades they do? / Sarah Warshauer Freedman -- Redefining revision for freshmen / David L. Wallace and John R. Hayes -- Cooperative writing : direct effects and transfer / Angela M. O'Donnell ... [and others] -- Developmental differences in response to a story / Richard Beach and Linda Wendler -- The effects of observational activities on student writing / George Hillocks, Jr. -- Investigating the control of writing skills / Robert J. Bracewell -- Discourse synthesis : creating texts from texts / Nancy Nelson Spivey.

The notion of giftedness and student expectations about writing / Michael Palmquist and Richard E. Young.