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.