Articles & chapters

Nelson, N. Skinner, K., & Barrera, IV, E. S. (2023). The writing-reading nexus: Authors and their audiences. In R. Horowitz (Ed.), Routledge international handbook of research on writing (pp. 141-162). Routledge. 

Nelson, N., & King, J. IR. (2023). Discourse synthesis: Textual transformations in writing from sources. Reading and Writing, 36, 769-808.

Nelson, N., Barrera, E. S. IV, Skinner, K., & Fuentes, A. (2016). Language, culture, and border lives: Mestizaje as positionality/Lengua, cultura y vidas de frontera: el mestizaje como posicionalidad. Cultura y Educación, 28, 1-41.

Nelson, N. (2012). The reading-writing nexus revisited: Research directions. In S. Matre & A. Skaftun (Eds.), Skriv, les (pp. 173-189). Tapir Academic Press.

Nelson, N. (2012). No final word: Cognition and context in writing research. In C. Gelati, B. Arté, & L. Mason (Eds.), Essays in writing research: In honor of Piero Boscolo (pp. 13-27). Università Degli Studi di Padova.

Nelson, N., & Castelló, M. (2012). Academic writing and authorial voice. In M. Castelló & C. Donahue (Eds.), University writing: Selves and texts in academic societies (pp. 33-52). Brill.

Nelson, N. (2011). The relevance of rhetoric. In D. Lapp & D. Fisher (Eds.), Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts (3rd ed., pp. 290-296). Routledge. 

Nelson, N., & Grote-Garcia, S.  (2009). Text analysis as theory-laden methodology. In C. Bazerman (Ed.), Traditions of writing research (pp. 406-418). Routledge.

Nelson, N. (2008). The reading-writing nexus in discourse research. In C. Bazerman (Ed.), Handbook of research on writing: History, society, school, individual, text (pp. 435-450). Erlbaum. 

Nelson, N. (2007). Why write?  A consideration of rhetorical purpose. In S. Hidi & P. Boscolo (Eds.), Writing and motivation (pp. 17-30). Elsevier. DOI:10.1108/s1572-6304(2006)0000019004

Nelson, N., & Kinneavy, J. L.  (2003). Rhetoric. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. Jenson, & J. Squire (Eds.).  Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts (pp. 786-798). Erlbaum.

Nelson, N. (2001). Discourse synthesis: The process and the product. In R. G. McInnis (Ed.), Discourse synthesis: Studies in historical and contemporary social epistemology (pp. 379-396). Praeger.

Nelson, N. (2001). Writing to learn: One theory, two rationales. In P. Tynjala, L. Mason, & K. Lonka (Eds.), Writing as a learning tool: Integrating theory and practice (pp. 23-36). Kluwer. 

Nelson, N. (1998). Reading and writing, contextualized. In N. Nelson & R. C. Calfee (Eds.) The reading-writing connection: Ninety-seventh yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (pp. 266-285. University of Chicago Press.

Nelson, N., & Calfee, R. C. (1998). The reading-writing connection viewed historically. In N. Nelson & R. C. Calfee (Eds.) The reading-writing connection:  Ninety-seventh yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (pp. 1-52). University of Chicago Press.

Spivey, N. N. (1997). Rereading Remembering. Journal of Literacy Research, 29, 135-144.

Spivey, N. N. (1995). Written discourse: A constructivist perspective. In L. Steffe & G. Gale (Eds.), Constructivism in education (pp. 313-329). Erlbaum. 

Spivey, N. N., & King, J. R. (1994). Readers as writers composing from sources. In R. Ruddell, M. R., Ruddell, & H. Singer (Eds.), Theoretical models and processes of reading (4th edition, pp. 668-694). International Reading Association.

Spivey, N. N. (1992). Discourse synthesis: Creating texts from texts. In J. R. Hayes, R. E. Young, M. Matchett, M. McCaffrey, C. Cochran,  & T. Hajduk (Eds.), Reading empirical research studies: The rhetoric of research (pp. 469-512). Erlbaum. 

Spivey, N. N. (1991). The shaping of meaning: Options in writing the comparison.  Research in the Teaching of English, 25, 390-418.

Spivey, N. N. (1990). Transforming texts: Constructive processes in reading and writing.  Written Communication, 7, 256-287.

Spivey, N. N., & King, J. R. (1989). Readers as writers composing from sources. Reading Research Quarterly, 24, 7-26.

Spivey, N. N. (1987). Construing constructivism: Reading research in the United States. Poetics, 16, 169-192.