Methods in Writing Process Research

Dagmar Knorr (Dr. phil.) is head of the writing center Schreibwerkstatt Mehrsprachigkeit at Hamburg University and works in the fields of teaching academic writing, multilingualism and writing process research.Carmen Heine (Associate Prof., PhD) is a member of faculty at Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, Business Communication. She is a member of the Research Group for Knowledge Communication and works in the fields of writing process research and translation studies. Jan Engberg (Prof., PhD) is a member of faculty at Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, Business Communication. He is head of the Research Group for Knowledge Communication and works in the fields of studies of specialized discourse and of knowledge represented in and constructed from texts.

• Contents: Carmen Heine/Dagmar Knorr/Jan Engberg: Methods in writing process research. Introduction and overview – Kees de Glopper/Jacqueline van Kruiningen/Noortje Hemmen: Context in Writing Process Research. An exploratory analysis of context characteristics in writing process research in educational and workplace settings – Daniel Perrin: Combining methods in AL-informed writing research – Gabriela Ruhmann: Between Experience and Empirical Research. Writing Process Counseling as a natural setting for Writing Process Research – Gary Massey/Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow: Looking Beyond Text. The usefulness of translation process data – Iris Schrijver/Leona Van Vaerenbergh/Mariëlle Leijten/Luuk Van Waes: The translator as a writer. Measuring the effect of writing skills on the translation product – Carmen Heine/Jan Engberg/Dagmar Knorr/Daniel Spielmann: New methods of text production process research combined – Joachim Grabowski/Michael Becker-Mrotzek/Matthias Knopp/Jörg Jost/Christian Weinzierl: Comparing and combining different approaches to the assessment of text quality – Djuddah A.J. Leijen: Applying machine learning techniques to investigate the influence of peer feedback on the writing process – Susanne Göpferich: Methods of measuring students’ text production competence and its development in writing courses – Katrin Lehnen/Lisa Schüler/Martin Steinseifer: A showcase on reading and writing. Visual resources for analyzing, teaching and learning how to write academic texts.