Table of Contents: “…Ornatowski -- A pilot investigation : a longitudinal study of student writing in a post-totalitarian state / Gil Harootunian -- The continuum illiterate - literate and the contrast between different ethnicities / Maria Silvia Cintra -- Strategies, policies and research on reading and writing in Colombian universities / Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón -- Young children revising their own texts in school settings / Mirta Castedo, Emilia Ferreiro -- Written representations of nominal morphology by Chinese and Moroccan children learning a Romance language / Liliana Tolchisky, Naymé Salas -- Relationships between idea generation and trascription : how the act of writing shapes what children write / John R. …”