Introduction
Marcia Farr Whiteman
William S. Hall; Part 1 Socio-Cultural Functions of Writing; Chapter 1 The Ethnography of Literacy
John F. Szwed; Chapter 2 Toward an Ethnohistory of Writing in American Education
Shirley Brice Heath; Chapter 3 The Status of Writing in our Society
Edward P. J. Corbett; Chapter 4 The Status and Politics of Writing Instruction
Richard Hendrix; Chapter 5 Unpackaging Literacy
Sylvia Scribner
Michael Cole; Chapter 6 From Oral to Written Culture
Jenny Cook-Gumperz
John J. Gumperz; Chapter 7 The Voice of Varied Linguistic and Cultural Groups in Fiction
Elizabeth Closs Traugott; Part 2 Language Differences and Writing; Chapter 8 Teaching Teachers about Teaching Writing to Students from Varied Linguistic Social and Cultural Groups
Carol E. Reed; Chapter 9 Dialect Influence in Writing
Marcia Farr Whiteman; Chapter 10 Identity
Power and Writing Skills
Concepción M. Valadez; Chapter 11 The Written English of Deaf Adolescents
Veda R. Charrow; Chapter 12 Practical Aspects of Teaching Composition to Bidialectal Students
Shirley A. Lewis; Chapter 13 Bias in Composition Tests with Suggestions for a Culturally Appropriate Assessment Technique
Mary Rhodes Hoover
Robert L. Politzer;