Introduction: Potential Problems and Problematic Potentials of Using Talk About Writing as Data About Writing Process / Peter Smagorinsky -- 1. Think-Aloud Protocol Analysis: Beyond the Black Box / Peter Smagorinsky -- 2. Think-Aloud Protocols, Protocol Analysis, and Research Design: An Exploration of the Influence of Writing Tasks on Writing Processes / Stephen P. White and Roger D. Cherry -- 3. Substance and Romance in Analyzing Think-Aloud Protocols / Robert J. Bracewell and Alain Breuleux -- 4. Reactivity in Concurrent Think-Aloud Protocols: Issues for Research / James F. Stratman and Liz Hamp-Lyons -- 5. "Once Upon a Time": The Use of Retrospective Accounts in Building Theory in Composition / Stuart Greene and Lorraine Higgins -- 6. Using Intervention Protocols to Study the Effects of Instructional Scaffolding on Writing and Learning / Deborah Swanson-Owens and George E. Newell.

7. Stimulated Recall in Research on Writing: An Antidote to "I Don't Know, It Was Fine" / Anne DiPardo -- 8. Interpreting and Counting: Objectivity in Discourse Analysis / George Hillocks, Jr. -- 9. Discourse Analysis of Teacher-Student Writing Conferences: Finding the Message in the Medium / Melanie Sperling -- 10. What's All This Talk I Hear?: Using Sociolinguistic Analysis to Locate and Map Themes in Teacher/Student Talk About Writing / Elizabeth Hodges -- 11. Ethnographic Interviews and Writing Research: A Critical Examination of the Methodology / Elaine Chin -- 12. Whither Wisdom? / David N. Dobrin -- 13. Withered Wisdom: A Reply to Dobrin / Robert J. Bracewell.