Most cited papers in Writing and Handwriting Education
What are the most cited papers in Writing and Handwriting Education?
The most cited paper in Writing and Handwriting Education is "An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings." (James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart, 1981), with 4,847 citations. Next come "The Psychology of Written Composition" (2,829) and "Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies" (2,597).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 465 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings. James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart · Psychological Review | Sep 1981 | 4,847 |
| 2 | The Psychology of Written Composition Alister Cumming, Carl Bereiter, Marlene Scardamalia · Modern Language Journal | 1989 | 2,829 |
| 3 | Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies Philip H. K. Seymour, Mikko T. Aro, Jane M. Erskine · British Journal of Psychology | May 2003 | 2,597 |
| 4 | A meta-analysis of writing instruction for adolescent students. Steve Graham, Dolores Perin · Journal of Educational Psychology | Aug 2007 | 1,606 |
| 5 | Learning to Read Words: Theory, Findings, and Issues Linnea C. Ehri · Scientific Studies of Reading | 23 Mar 2005 | 1,407 |
| 6 | Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension Charles A. Perfetti, Joseph Z. Stafura · Scientific Studies of Reading | 9 Nov 2013 | 1,347 |
| 7 | Introduction to response to intervention: What, why, and how valid is it? Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs · Reading Research Quarterly | 3 Jan 2006 | 1,337 |
| 8 | SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS, MOTIVATION, AND ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Frank Pajares · Reading & Writing Quarterly | Apr 2003 | 1,334 |
| 9 | Language Learning Motivation: Expanding the Theoretical Framework Rebecca L. Oxford, Jill Shearin · Modern Language Journal | Mar 1994 | 1,148 |
| 10 | The efficacy of various kinds of error feedback for improvement in the accuracy and fluency of L2 student writing Jean Chandler · Journal of Second Language Writing | Aug 2003 | 1,116 |
| 11 | Fluency: A review of developmental and remedial practices. Melanie Rebecca Kuhn, Steven A. Stahl · Journal of Educational Psychology | Mar 2003 | 1,079 |
| 12 | Written emotional expression: Effect sizes, outcome types, and moderating variables. Joshua Morrison Smyth · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1998 | 1,050 |
| 13 | Patterns of paralexia: A psycholinguistic approach John C. Marshall, Freda Newcombe · Journal of Psycholinguistic Research | 1973 | 1,035 |
| 14 | Disruption of posterior brain systems for reading in children with developmental dyslexia Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywitz, Kenneth R. Pugh et al. · Biological Psychiatry | Jul 2002 | 1,001 |
| 15 | How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading Keith Rayner, Barbara R. Foorman, Charles A. Perfetti et al. · Gothic.net | Nov 2001 | 933 |
| 16 | Changing relations between phonological processing abilities and word-level reading as children develop from beginning to skilled readers: A 5-year longitudinal study. Richard K. Wagner, Joseph K. Torgesen, Carol A. Rashotte et al. · Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 914 |
| 17 | Contributions of morphology beyond phonology to literacy outcomes of upper elementary and middle-school students. William E. Nagy, Virginia Wise Berninger, Robert D. Abbott · Journal of Educational Psychology | Feb 2006 | 898 |
| 18 | Modeling and Remodeling Writing John R. Hayes · Written Communication | Jul 2012 | 888 |
| 19 | Genre-based pedagogies: A social response to process Ken Hyland · Journal of Second Language Writing | Feb 2003 | 888 |
| 20 | Handwriting development, competency, and intervention Katya Polena Feder, Annette Majnemer · Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology | 19 Mar 2007 | 884 |
| 21 | Toward an Understanding of the Distinct Nature of L2 Writing: The ESL Research and Its Implications Tony J. Silva · TESOL Quarterly | 1993 | 862 |
| 22 | Training writing skills: A cognitive developmental perspective Ronald T. Kellogg · Journal of Writing Research | Jun 2008 | 860 |
| 23 | Persuasion and context: The pragmatics of academic metadiscourse Ken Hyland · Journal of Pragmatics | Oct 1998 | 856 |
| 24 | Acquisition of literacy: A longitudinal study of children in first and second grade. Connie L. Juel, Priscilla L. Griffith, Philip B. Gough · Journal of Educational Psychology | Aug 1986 | 843 |
| 25 | A meta-analysis of writing instruction for students in the elementary grades. Steve Graham, Debra McKeown, Sharlene A. Kiuhara et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology | 9 Jul 2012 | 829 |
| 26 | Developmental dyslexia: specific phonological deficit or general sensorimotor dysfunction? Franck Ramus · Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Apr 2003 | 816 |
| 27 | Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. Rohe N. Eshbaugh · Professional Psychology | 1971 | 812 |
| 28 | Orthographic Depth and Its Impact on Universal Predictors of Reading Johannes Christoph Ziegler, Daisy Bertrand, Dénes Tóth et al. · Psychological Science | 18 Feb 2010 | 800 |
| 29 | Should We Use Characteristics of Conversation to Measure Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing Development? Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Kornwipa Poonpon · TESOL Quarterly | Mar 2011 | 797 |
| 30 | The Effects of School-Based Writing-to-Learn Interventions on Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis Robert L. Bangert‐Drowns, Marlene M. Hurley, Barbara E. Wilkinson · Review of Educational Research | Mar 2004 | 795 |
| 31 | Humble servants of the discipline? Self-mention in research articles Ken Hyland · English for Specific Purposes | 2001 | 780 |
| 32 | Cross-language transfer of phonological awareness. Aydin Y. Durgunoğlu, William E. Nagy, Barbara J. Hancin-Bhatt · Journal of Educational Psychology | Sep 1993 | 768 |
| 33 | Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies to Students With Learning Disabilities: A Review of Research Russell M. Gersten, Lynn S. Fuchs, Joanna P. Williams et al. · Review of Educational Research | Jun 2001 | 754 |
| 34 | The Relationship Between Motor Proficiency and Physical Activity in Children Brian H. Wrotniak, Leonard H. Epstein, Joan M. Dorn et al. · PEDIATRICS | Dec 2006 | 752 |
| 35 | Developmental Dyslexia: a Diagnostic Approach Based on Three Atypical Reading‐spelling Patterns Elena Boder · Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology | Oct 1973 | 737 |
| 36 | Phonological Recoding and Orthographic Learning: A Direct Test of the Self-Teaching Hypothesis David L. Share · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | Feb 1999 | 737 |
| 37 | Development of word reading fluency and spelling in a consistent orthography: An 8-year follow-up. Karin Landerl, Heinz Wimmer · Journal of Educational Psychology | Feb 2008 | 727 |
| 38 | Rethinking Genre in School and Society David Ross Russell · Written Communication | Oct 1997 | 722 |
| 39 | The Composing Processes of Advanced ESL Students: Six Case Studies Vivian Zamel · TESOL Quarterly | Jun 1983 | 718 |
| 40 | Macrorules for summarizing texts: the development of expertise Ann L. Brown, Jeanne D. Day · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Feb 1983 | 714 |
| 41 | Orthographic Mapping in the Acquisition of Sight Word Reading, Spelling Memory, and Vocabulary Learning Linnea C. Ehri · Scientific Studies of Reading | 26 Sep 2013 | 712 |
| 42 | Reading and Writing Relations and Their Development Jill Fitzgerald, Timothy Shanahan · Educational Psychologist | 2000 | 694 |
| 43 | Morphological awareness: Just “more phonological”? The roles of morphological and phonological awareness in reading development S. Hélène Deacon, John R. Kirby · Applied Psycholinguistics | Apr 2004 | 682 |
| 44 | The Role of Self-Regulation and Transcription Skills in Writing and Writing Development Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris · Educational Psychologist | 2000 | 677 |
| 45 | Theoretical links among naming speed, precise timing mechanisms and orthographic skill in dyslexia Patricia Greig Bowers, Maryanne Wolf · Reading and Writing | Mar 1993 | 664 |
| 46 | A capacity theory of writing: Working memory in composition Deborah McCutchen · Educational Psychology Review | Sep 1996 | 658 |
| 47 | Fluency: Bridge Between Decoding and Reading Comprehension John J. Pikulski, David J. Chard · The Reading Teacher | 28 Feb 2005 | 651 |
| 48 | Do Secondary L2 Writers Benefit from Peer Comments? Amy Β. M. Tsui, Maria Ng · Journal of Second Language Writing | May 2000 | 648 |
| 49 | Writing Expertise and Second‐Language Proficiency* Alister H. Cumming · Language Learning | Mar 1989 | 640 |
| 50 | Development of left occipitotemporal systems for skilled reading in children after a phonologically- based intervention Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywitz, Benita A. Blachman et al. · Biological Psychiatry | 27 Feb 2004 | 623 |
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