"What did I change and why did I do it?" Young writers' revision practices

Literacy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-10

  Dix, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Children's thinking; Drafting writing; Meta cognition; Revision practices; Writing; Writing and cognition; Young fluent writers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644887433     PISSN: 17414350     EISSN: 17414369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9345.2006.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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