“…Kissel (2009) argues that children influence their peers in writing through their writing behavior (i.e., what they chose to draw or write) and their way of talking about their writing. For example, in an ethnographic, qualitative study of one kindergarten classroom, Kissel, Hansen, Tower, and Lawrence (2011) demonstrate how children's conversations about writing (e.g., telling a friend why his picture is not a map or asking for a friends help with an illustration or story) influences (a) their motivations to engage or disengage from the writing process, (b) their idea generation, and (c) children's refinement of their ideas about what writing is (e.g., letters vs. scribbles). Given the limited research on children's contributions to their writing process and to those of their peers, additional research is clearly needed.…”