The Hitchhiker''s Guide to Writing Research: A Festschrift for Steve Graham

About

Xinghua Liu PhD. is an Associate Professor at School of Foreign Languages Shanghai Jiao Tong University China. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading UK and completed his post-doctorate training in writing research at Arizona State University USA. His research interests include psychology of written production linguistic profile of English-language learners written corpus and validation of effective writing interventions. He serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of TESOL Studies and International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching. He is currently a member of the steering committee for International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research.   Michael Hebert PhD. is an Associate Professor at the University of California Irvine (UCI) and Director of the UCI Writing Project. His interests include the impacts of writing on reading writing assessment and the development of writing interventions. Dr. Hebert co-authored two influential Carnegie Corporation reports: Writing to Read and Informing Writing and he was the co-editor of Best Practices in Writing Instruction third edition. He is also the Primary Investigator for a Pandemic Recovery grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to accelerate reading achievement in rural Nebraska schools. He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Educational Psychology. Dr. Hebert was previously a classroom teacher and reading specialist in schools in New Hampshire Massachusetts California and the Navajo Nation.   Rui A. Alves is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Porto. His main research interests are the cognitive and affective processes in writing which he studies using experimental methods and logging tools. He and his team have studied the development of text production using an owndeveloped handwriting logging software (HandSpy) and developed many evidence-based writing interventions addressing cognitive motivational and self-regulatory aspects of writing. He serves on several editorial boards and is an Associate Editor of the journal Reading & Writing Springer. Currently he is the interim coordinator of the European Literacy Network ELN and serves on the executive boards of ISAWR and EARLI.