Attempting to place in an American context many of the ideas about the teaching of writing that were first developed in England, this book contains contributions from internationally prominent teachers/scholars who attended the New York University-CBS Sunrise Semester course on learning to write and writing to learn. The text also reflects the feedback and contributions of the teachers/students who participated in the course and who have worked in subsequent inservice workshops. The first chapter broadly defines writing, discussing purpose and audience, writing as a linguistic process, the composing process, and developing learners in the writing classroom. The remaining chapters discuss the following topics: (1) constructing a world through writing (storytelling), (2) the composing process, (3) writing from a developmental perspective, (4) writing to learn across the curriculum, (5) initiating and sustaining composing, (6) responding and evaluating, and (7) writing instruction survival in the real world. Writing-to-learn activities conclude each of these chapters. (HTH)