The authors hypothesized that multicultural personality and ethnic identity would significantly predict variance in multicultural counseling competencies in counselor trainees, beyond the variance predicted by demographics, multicultural training, openness, and cognitive racial attitudes. Results showed multicultural personality predicted multicultural counseling competency, but ethnic identity did not. Results and implications are discussed.

S This 7‐month naturalistic study investigated students' reading and writing engagements as they conducted a research investigation related to World War II. Students were free to choose their research topics, to search for and to select from source materials, and to write up and present their findings in their own way. The participants were 11‐ and 12‐year‐old pupils in an open‐concept school in Aberdeen, Scotland. Data took the form of fieldnotes, photocopies of research booklets and source texts, structured, unstructured, and debriefing interviews, and audio and videotapes. Ongoing data analysis led to selection of key informants whose work sampled the range of composing‐from‐sources processes which were apparent in this context. Three major task impressions were uncovered: research as accumulating information, research as transferring information, and research as transforming information. These task impressions were characterized by differing emphases on the following research subtasks: planning, searching, finding, recording, reviewing, and presenting. Students did not carry out these subtasks in either a strictly linear or a strictly cyclical pattern. Task impressions were also related to the differential use of the following strategies when working from sources: duplicating, drawing, and labeling, sentence‐by‐sentence reworking, read/remember/write, cut‐and‐paste synthesis, and discourse synthesis. The task impressions and strategy use of individual students influenced and were influenced by the materials used and the social and instructional context of the classroom. Students who viewed research as a process of transforming information were more likely to demonstrate a range of strategies which allowed them to traverse their topics from multiple perspectives. [Note: This article is reproduced as chapter 26 of the fifth edition of Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading. http://www.reading.org/publications/bbv/books/bk502/index.html] Este estudio naturalista de siete meses de duración investigó las actividades de lectoescritura en las que se involucraron los estudiantes mientras hacían una investigación sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Los estudiantes pudieron elegir libremente los tópicos de investigación, buscar y seleccionar información de las fuentes y redactar y presentar los hallazgos a su manera. Los participantes fueron alumnos de 11 y 12 años de una escuela de concepción abierta en Aberdeen, Escocia. Los datos tuvieron la forma de notas de campo, fotocopias de folletos y textos de investigación, entrevistas estructuradas y no estructuradas y grabaciones de audio y video. El análisis de los datos condujo a la selección de informantes clave cuyo trabajo reunía el rango de procesos de composición a partir de las fuentes que eran evidentes en este contexto. Se identificaron principalmente tres tipos de tarea: la investigación como acumulación de información, la investigacion como transferencia de información y la investigación como transformación de la información. Estos tipos de tarea se c...

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