Second language writing : research insights for the classroom / edited by Barbara Kroll.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Second language composition instruction : developments, issues, and directions in ESL / Tony Silva -- L1 composition theories : implications for developing theories of L2 composition / Ann M. Johns -- An overview of second language writing process research / Alexandra Rowe Krapels -- Coaching from the margins : issues in written response / Ilona Leki -- Second language writing : assessment issues / Liz Hamp-Lyons -- Reading-writing connections : toward a description for second language learners / Joan Carson Eisterhold -- Composing in English : effects of a first language on writing in English as a second language / Alexander Friedlander -- The teaching of topical structure analysis as a revision strategy for ESL writers / Ulla Connor and Mary Farmer.

What does time buy? : ESL student performance on home versus class compositions / Barbara Kroll -- Feedback on compositions : teacher and student verbal reports / Andrew D. Cohen and Marilda C. Cavalcanti -- Teacher response to student writing : focus on form versus content / Ann K. Fathman and Elizabeth Whalley -- Responding to different topic types : a quantitative analysis from a contrastive rhetoric perspective / Joy Reid -- Writing with others' words : using background reading text in academic compositions / Cherry Campbell.