On Saying It Right (Write): "Fix-Its" in the Foundations of Learning to Write.

The basics of child writing, as traditionally conceived, involve neutral conventions for organizing and encoding language. This basic notion of a solid foundation for child writing is itself situated in a fluid world of cultural and linguistic diversity and rapidly changing literacy practices. In this paper, I aim to theorize and problematize the basics, drawing on an ethnographic study of child writing in a regulated (i.e., test-monitored)...