Download or read book The Structure of Written Communication written by Martin Nystrand and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 1986 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it. It includes key features such as: reciprocity as a principle of discourse; language development as socialization; context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as concepts in discourse analysis; and writing and reading as social processes.