Most academic literature on teaching writing addresses the interplay between process and product and the need to respect individual contributions. This text tackles the difficult issues of writing and teaching that persist and the attempts made to engender workable solutions.

Untangling approaches to teaching writing: a process of change in one classroom / Pamela Van Nest -- Untangling knots through talking about writing / Jeanne Arnold and Shelley Peterson -- Multiage author groups: one way to untangle the revision knot / Cathy Bruce -- Untangling knots in early writing: young children's conceptions of print / Janette Pelletier and Jennifer Lasenby -- A complex tangle: teaching writing to english language learners in the mainstream classroom / Monika Smith and Donald S. Qi -- Untangling second language writers' and teachers' knots with reformulation / Sharon Lapkin -- A tightly tangled knot: the influence of teachers' gender perceptions on their assessment of student writing / Shelley Peterson -- Untying the knot of time constraints: using technology to extend student writing beyond the classroom / Joseph Allin -- Unraveling the fear of poetry/reveling in the pleasure of poetry / Carl Leggo -- The tangle of context: making meaning by writing in role / David Booth -- Engaging reluctant adolescent writers with contemporary literacy: untangling two knots / Jill Kedersha McClay.