Looking ahead to more sociopolitically-oriented case study research in L2 writing scholarship: (But should it be called "post-process"?)

In this essay I argue that three familiar areas of inquiry in future L2 writing research need to be investigated in more sociopolitically-oriented ways: written products, writing processes, and writer identity, and that qualitative case studies are well suited to explore the extraordinary diversity of L2 writers and writing contexts from an expanded sociopolitical perspective. However, although substantive changes in how we think about these areas of inquiry appear to be taking place, some resistance to these changes can be expected. Finally, I suggest caution in using the label "postprocess" to describe the substantive changes in how we are beginning to view L2 writing scholarship.