Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction, Teaching the next generation of second language writers / Barbara Kroll -- Second language writing in the twentieth century : a situated historical perspective / Paul Kei Matsuda -- Research on second language writing : an overview of what we investigate and how / Charlene Polio -- Experienced ESL/EFL writing instructors' conceptualizations of their teaching : curriculum options and implications / Alister Cumming -- Second language writing up close and personal : some success stories / Tony Silva ... [et al.] -- Responding to writing / Dana Ferris -- Grammar and the ESL writing class / Jan Frodesen and Christine Holten -- Writing teachers as assessors of writing / Liz Hamp-Lyons -- Genre and ESL/EFL composition instruction / Ann M. Johns -- Changing currents in contrastive rhetoric : implications for teaching and research / Ulla Connor.

Reading and writing relations : second language perspectives on research and practice / William Grabe -- Literature in the teaching of second language composition / Stephanie Vandrick -- Impact of the computer in second language writing / Martha C. Pennington -- Challenge to second language writing professionals : is writing overrated? / Ilona Leki.