First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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;