Writing and learning in cross-national perspective : transitions from secondary to higher education / edited by David Foster, David R. Russell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Track (dis)connecting" : Chinese high school and university writing in a time of change / Xiao-ming Li -- Cracking the codes anew : writing about literature in England / Mary Scott -- The lycee-to-university progression in French students' development as writers / Christiane Donahue -- Making the transition to university : student writers in Germany -- David Foster -- An academic writer in Kenya : the transition fron secondary school to the university / Mary Nyambura Muchiri -- Roles under construction : the intersection of writer agency and task design in South Africa / Suellen Shay and Rob Moore, with Antoinette Cloete.