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Jamie -- I wish I knew all the references you mention as "less current." You did a lot of reading before your desert-island holiday! An interesting book (about children as well as adults because about literacy and the ways it's learned) is David Olson's The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading. He talks about literacy as a cultural phenomenon, and points out how the use of writing instead of speech requires development of lexical and syntactic devices, also genre and rhetoric, to restore signals about "how to take" statements. His last chapters talk about what people need to conceptualize in order to differentiate among signals (i.e. do critical reading). He's good at giving historical sketches, though his empirical data from individuals seem a little thin. The book is good reading--lots of pictures, even. It's published by Cambridge UP, 1994. Look forward to hearing what other suggestions you get (more on topic, you can hope). Cheers, Margaret. > > Hi all, > > I've been on a desert island for four, maybe five years, and thus haven't > done any reading in that time. > > Does anyone know of useful, recent (say in the last 4-5 years) research > (or models) on how people (adults is my focus) develop "analytic" > ability? > > What I'm looking for is similar to, but more current than, these examples: > - Moffet's progression related to development in ability to abstract > - Bereiter's "higher-order" / "lower-order" schemes, and his notion of > "epistemic" writing > - Reigel's and Arlin's five-stage model of cognitive development > > Thanks for any help. > > Jamie > -- (Dr.) Margaret Procter Room 216, 15 King's College Circle Coordinator, Writing Support Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7 University of Toronto (416) 978-8109; FAX (416) 971-2027 www.library.utoronto.ca/www/writing/ [log in to unmask]