PROGRAM & ABSTRACT BOOK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON WRITING & CONFERENCE ON ...

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PROGRAM & ABSTRACT BOOK
RESEARCH SCHOOL ON WRITING
&
CONFERENCE ON WRITING RESEARCH
Organized for the Special Interest Group on Writing
of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
RENSKE BOUWER*, MARTINE BRAAKSMA**, MONICA KOSTER*,
SASKIA RIETDIJK**, GERT RIJLAARSDAM**/***,
& HUUB VAN DEN BERGH*
*Utrecht University, ** University of Amsterdam, & ***University Antwerp
Research School on Writing Research Utrecht August 25-26 2014
Conference on Writing Research Amsterdam August 27-29 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. You are seeing, living it! .......................................................................... 5
2. Welcome ................................................................................................. 7
3. Welcome again ....................................................................................... 8
SECTION 1: GENERAL INFORMATION RESEARCH SCHOOL AND COWR ......... 9
4. Research School .................................................................................... 11
4.1 Locations ....................................................................................... 12
4.2 Themes .......................................................................................... 12
4.3 Social events ................................................................................. 13
4.4 Facilities ........................................................................................ 14
5. COWR .................................................................................................... 16
5.1 Types of sessions and how it works .............................................. 16
5.2 Special sessions ............................................................................. 17
5.3 Sponsoring .................................................................................... 20
5.4 Social events ................................................................................. 23
5.5 Facilities ........................................................................................ 25
5.6 Transport....................................................................................... 28
SECTION 2: RESEARCH SCHOOL ON WRITING 2014 ..................................... 31
6. Programme overview ............................................................................ 32
7. Abstracts ............................................................................................... 35
SECTION 3: CONFERENCE ON WRITING RESEARCH .................................... 114
8. Programme overview .......................................................................... 115
9. Abstracts ............................................................................................. 124
10. Author index ................................................................................... 575
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11. Reviewers COWR ............................................................................ 581
12. Scientific committee ....................................................................... 583
SIG Writing 25th Anniversary
1. YOU ARE SEEING, LIVING IT!
It is out of sheer luck that we are fortunate to be chairing the celebration of the SIG
Writing 25th anniversary. What a better place to be celebrating this milestone than
the cheerful city of Amsterdam? We are greatly pleased at the strenuous work that
the Amsterdam&Utrecht team has made to make this conference the largest SIG
Writing Conference to date. And, surely enough, by any other objective or subjec-
tive measure, this conference should surpass all, particularly because it will contin-
ue to strengthen the joyful, lively and curious scientific spirit that has nurtured SIG
Writing vitality for the last 25 years. And, we will continue to grow!
Writing research has never been so flourishing as in current days. You can see
this antifragile character in the young scholars that our group attracts, in the Dr.
Joshi travel grants, in the recently completed COST Action IS0703 – Learning to
Write Effectively --, in the SIG Writing honorary members, in the Journal of Writing
Research, in the SIG Writing National Events, in the Studies in Writing Series, in our
newsletter, and in other recent SIG Writing initiatives (check our website, www.sig-
writing.org). This character is also reflected in the other friendly literacy societies
where our members also participate and you will soon see it in the newly funded
COST IS1401 –building the European Literacy Network. However, notably, you are
seeing, living it in this conference, as you meet again all those friendly researchers
with whom you mingle and with whom you continue to push writing and literacy
research into the future. Here’s to another 25 years!
It is our great pleasure to welcome you in Amsterdam for celebrating our quar-
ter-century of sturdiness,

Rui A. Alves, Vince Connelly, and Teresa Limpo
SIG Writing coordinators team
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2. WELCOME
We proudly present you the compilation of all contributions of the Research School
and the Conference on Writing Research: a full and diverse program that covers all
aspects of writing. And that is certainly no exaggeration!
We were granted the honour of organizing the biennial SIG writing conference
exactly two years ago in Porto, Portugal, and it took us less than 30 minutes1 to
decide on the conference’s theme. Unanimously we agreed on “Writing is fun!”
“Why?”, one might ask, “writing is a complex cognitive process, leading to severe
cognitive overload, difficult to measure, hard to teach, etc. etc….” All true, of
course, but still, it is fun to meet all those people face to face who are also working
hard on solving part of the complex puzzle that writing has proven to be. They even
enjoy it!2 .
But of course there was another, very important reason why we, in all our wis-
dom, decided that the theme of the COWR 2014 had to be FUN, and that is that,
during our conference, we will be celebrating SIG writing’s 25th3 anniversary! This
festive occasion may not pass unnoticed.
We are very pleased to host this conference in the Netherlands in this very spe-
cial year and we hope you will enjoy4 the program as much as we did when we put
it together.

The RS & COWR 2014 team: Renske Bouwer, Martine A.H. Braaksma, Monica
Koster, Saskia Rietdijk, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Sofie Sloot, Huub van den Bergh

1 Again: no exaggeration
2 Once more: no exaggeration
3 It is a fact!
4 Huh?
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3. WELCOME AGAIN
When we chose to participate in the bid for hosting the 2014 SIG WRITING Confer-
ence, we included a Research School into our plans. It is one item on the activity list
of SIG WRITING that was missing until now, and we thought that it might be a good
opportunity to start a tradition to combine the Conference with a Research School:
one travel, two extra days, and two events for PhD candidates. Now that we have
the tradition of Biannual conferences, a publication repository for technical re-
search reports, a research journal JOWR, a book series Studies in Writing, a digital
Newsletter, a distribution list, a website, a junior coordinator, a John Hayes Award
for best JOWR article ... a Writing Research School completes the set of activities.
In the 20 years after the SIG WRITING Conference in Utrecht5 that we orga-
nized, the SIG WRITING community shows vivacity: an open network for those en-
tering the field of writing research, loyalty of the established researchers, a mix of
young and old, and traditional and new fields of research, respect for different
schools of thought.
For those who attended the SIG WRITING 1994 in Utrecht (the Netherlands):
Welcome back. For those who attend a SIG WRITING event for the first time: stay
with us.

Gert Rijlaarsdam & Huub van den Bergh

5 1994 Conference fee: 50 Dutch guilders, which is about 20 euro...; lunch: two rolls (one with
cheese, one with cholate sprinkles), one carton with milk (or buttermilk), one piece of fruit, all
in one box; grant from university (six months students assistant), rooms for free, technical
support for free, overhead transparancies ...
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SECTION 1: GENERAL INFORMATION RESEARCH SCHOOL AND COWR

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