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David Olson
Professor of Applied Cognitive Science
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto
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David R. Olson is a cognitive psychologist who has devoted much of the past two decades to the study of writing and literacy. His early paper on the topic "From utterance to text: The bias of language in speech and writing" Harvard Educational Review (1977) provides the core of much of the subsequent debate about writing. His book The world on paper (Cambridge University Press, 1994; Frence edition, Retz, 1999) is a standard work on writing and has been translated into several language. His most recent book on this topic (with N. Torrance) is The making of literate societies (Blackwell, 2001). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been awarded honourary degrees from the University of Gotherberg, Sweden and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Author of the following papers featured on interdisciplines.org:
· Modes d’écriture et modes de lecture de l’alphabet à Internet
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