Manuscripts & publications

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
B2017-0034/011(05) “The Role of Verbal Rules in Cognitive Processes of Children.” University of Alberta: PhD thesis, April 1963 File 1963
B2017-0034/012(02) Olson, D.R., Case, D.C., Wine, W., Pagliuso, S., Crosbie, D. & Gate, A.J. (1972) Teacher-student communication games: Some experiments on instruction. Stanford, CA: Research Memorandum No. 94, Stanford Center of Research and Development in Teaching File 1972
B2017-0034/012(06) “The languages of instruction: The literate bias of schooling.” In R. Anderson, R. Spira & W. Montague (Eds.) Schooling and the acquisition of knowledge (pp. 65-89). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1977 File 1977
B2017-0034/012(08) “From utterance to text: the bias of language in speech and writing.” Harvard Educational Review, 47, 3 (August 1977): 257-281 File 1977
B2017-0034/012(09) “The formalization of linguistic rules: Some comments on the paper by Derwing and Baker.” In J. Macnamara (Ed.) Language, learning, and thought. New York: Academic Press. 1977 File 1977
B2017-0034/012(14) The Social Foundations of language and thought: Essays in honour of Jerome S. Bruner. New York: Norton, 1980. Notes, correspondence File 1979-1980
B2017-0034/013(07) “The consequences of television.” Interchange, 12, 1, (1981): 53-60 File 1981
B2017-0034/013(11) The language of schooling. Topics in Language Disorders, 2, 4, (1982): 1-12 File 1982
B2017-0034/014(12) “Literacy as metalinguistic activity.” In D.R. Olson & N. Torrance (Eds.) Literacy and orality (pp. 251-270) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991 File 1991
B2017-0034/014(19) “The development of representations: The origins of mental life.” Canadian Psychology, 34, 3 (1993): 293-306 File 1993
B2017-0034/015(04) “Towards a psychology of literacy: On the relations between speech and writing.” Cognition. 60. (1996): 83-104 File 1996
B2017-0034/015(06) “Critical thinking: Learning to talk about talk and text.” In G.D. Phye (Ed.) Handbook of Academic Learning: Construction of knowledge (Educational Psychology Series). San Diego, Ca: Academic Press Inc. 1997 File 1997
B2017-0034/015(08) Redefining Literacy Newsletter. Spring 1998 File 1998
B2017-0034/015(10) “L’univers de l’ecrit: comment la culture écrite donne forme à la pensée.” Sciences humaines, 93(1999): 1-3. File 1999
B2017-0034/015(12) “Language development and literacy.” In D.A. Wagner, R.L. Venezky, & B.V. Street (Eds.) Literacy: An international handbook. New York: Westview Press. 1999 File 1999
B2017-0034/015(18) “What writing is.” Pragmatics and Cognition. 9(2). (2001): 239-258. Copy and comments. File 2001
B2017-0034/015(21) “Technology and Intelligence in Literate Society.” In R. Sternberg, D. Preiss (Eds.) Intelligence and technology: the impact of tools on nature and development of human abilities. New York: Routledge. 2005. Correspondence, agreements File 2002-2005
B2017-0034/016(02) “Is education something you do or something that happens to you? A critique of Feuer, M.J., Towne, L, and Shavelson, R.J. (2002) Scientific culture and educational research.” Educational Researcher, 31, 4-14. 2003 File 2003
B2017-0034/016(05) “History of schools and writing.” In C. Bazerman (Ed.) Handbook of research on writing (pp. 283-292) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 2007 File 2003-2004
B2017-0034/016(08) Olson, D.R., Cole, M. (2006) Culture, technology and history: Implications of the work of Jack Goody. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Correspondence, guidelines File 2004-2006
B2017-0034/016(14) “Whatever happened to the ‘Toronto School’.” In R. Watson & M. Blondheim (Eds.) The Toronto School of Communication Theory (pp. 254-260), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2007 File 2007
B2017-0034/016(15) Horowitz, R. and Olson, D.R. (2007) “Texts that talk.” In R. Horowitz (Ed.) Talking texts: Knowing the world through instructional discourse (pp. 55-90) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum File 2007
B2017-0034/016(17) Olson, D.R., Torrance, N. (2009) “Introduction.” In D. Olson, N. Torrance (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Literacy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press File 2009
B2017-0034/016(25) The Mind on Paper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. Agreement, royalties statements, book launch poster File 2015
B2017-0034/016(26) “The correction line: The making of an academic mind.” Draft. File 2017
B2017-0034/016(27) Society for Research in Child Development Newsletter. January 2017 File 2017
B2017-0034/017(01) Bialystok, E., Olson, D.R. “Memory for Sentences and events.” Draft. File n.d.
B2017-0034/017(02) “The Role of Context in Children’s Comprehension of Negative Statements.” Draft. File n.d.
B2017-0034/011(06) “The Relationship Between the Way the World Is and our Ideas About the Way the World Is.” Draft. File 1966
B2017-0034/011(07) “From perceiving to performing the diagonal.” Ontario Journal of Educational Research, 10, 3 (Spring 1968): 171-180 File 1968
B2017-0034/011(08) Cognitive development: The child’s acquisition of diagonality. New York: Academic Press, 1970. Draft File 1969
B2017-0034/011(10) “Language and thought: Aspects of a Cognitive Theory of Semantics.” Psychological Review, 77, 4 (July 1970): 257-273 File 1970
B2017-0034/012(01) “Language acquisition and cognitive development.” In C. Haywood (Ed.), Socio-cultural aspects of mental retardation. New York: Appleton-Century Crafts. 1970 File 1970
B2017-0034/012(11) “Assent and compliance in children’s language comprehension.” In Proceedings of Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (TINLAP-2) Urbana, IL: University of Illinois. 1978 File 1978
B2017-0034/013(02) Incomplete Olson/Bruner paper. “Some reasons for some reasons” File 1979-1980
B2017-0034/013(04) Olson, D.R., Torrance, N., & Hildyard, A. (Eds.) (1985) Literacy, language, and learning: The nature and consequences of reading and writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Correspondence, notes File 1980-1985
B2017-0034/013(05) van Holthoon, F. & D.R. Olson (Eds.) (1987) Common sense: The foundations for social experience. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Essay drafts and notes File 1980-1987
B2017-0034/013(08) “Children’s knowledge of some of the distinctive properties of written languages.” Draft. File 1981
B2017-0034/013(10) Olson, D.R., Bialystok, E. (1983) Spatial cognition: The structure of the mental representation of spatial relations. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Correspondence, notes File 1981-1983
B2017-0034/013(14) Report on untitled D.R. Olson manuscript File 1982
B2017-0034/013(15) Olson, D.R., Hildyard, A. (1983) “Writing and literal meaning.” In M. Martlew (Ed.) The psychology of writing. (pp. 41-65). New York: Wiley File 1983
B2017-0034/014(08) “Mind and media: the epistemic functions of literacy.” Journal of Communication, 38, 3 (1988): 27-36 File 1988
B2017-0034/014(14) “The mind according to Bruner.” Educational Researcher, 21, 4 (1992): 29-31 File 1992
B2017-0034/014(16) The world on paper: The conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Contract, publisher correspondence File 1992-1993
B2017-0034/014(18) Olson, D.R., Astington, J.W. (1993) “Thinking about thinking: Learning hold beliefs.” Educational Psychologist, 28, 1, 7-23 File 1993
B2017-0034/014(22) The World on Paper: The conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Review File 1994-1997
B2017-0034/015(03) “Conceptualizing the written word: An intellectual autobiography.” Written Communication. 12(3). (1995): 277-297 File 1995
B2017-0034/015(05) “The Written Representation of Negation.” Pragmatics & Cognition, 5, 2 (1997): 235-252 File 1997
B2017-0034/015(11) Kamawar, D., Olson, D.R. (1999) “Children’s development of a representational theory of language.” Cognitive Development, 14, 531-548 File 1999
B2017-0034/015(14) Zelazo, P.D., Astington, J.W., and Olson, D.R. (Eds.) “Developing Theories of Intention” (2000) in Human Development. 43: 178-185. Review File 2000