Section one: the historical context. The reading-writing connection viewed historically / Nancy Nelson and Robert C. Calfee. Section two. the author-audience context. Writing for readers : the primacy of audience in composing / Donald L. Rubin -- What is rhetoric and what can it do for writers and readers? / James J. Murphy -- Readers' awareness of author / Timothy Shanahan -- Talking to an author : readers taking charge of the reading process / Margaret G. McKeown and Isabel L. Beck. Section three: the classroom context. Teachers as readers of students' writing / Melanie Sperling --Contextualized teachers' responses to writing in the college classroom / Paul Prior -- How much are we the wiser? : continuity and change in writing and learning / George E. Newell -- Leading middle-grade students from reading to writing : conceptual and practical aspects / Robert C. Calfee -- Section four: the disciplinary context. Writing about literature : a dialogic approach / Richard Beach -- Students as critics of disciplinary texts / Maureen A. Mathison -- Reading and writing contextualized / Nancy Nelson