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Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa; Jovi R. S. Nazareno; Christopher Rappleye – Teachers College Press, 2024
Writing is the highest form of thinking, as evidenced by neuroimaging that shows how more neural networks are activated simultaneously during writing than during any other cognitive activity. This book will help teachers understand how the brain learns to write by unveiling 15 stages of thinking that underpin the writing process, along with…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Feedback (Response)
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Bos, Candace S. – Exceptional Children, 1988
The theoretical bases of process-oriented approaches for teaching writing to mildly handicapped students are described. Instructional features of such approaches include opportunities for sustained writing, establishment of a writing community, student selection of topics, modeling of the writing process and strategic thinking, reflective thinking…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Mild Disabilities, Process Education
Brand, Alice G., Comp.; Graves, Dick, Comp. – 1994
This collection of materials, a summary of a workshop, is divided into five sections, framed by introductory and concluding remarks. The sections are: (1) a panel on "What Is the Domain Beyond?"--panelists discussed their particular interests in areas that could not be traditionally classified as "cognitive" and related those…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Creative Activities, Higher Education
Pelham, Fran O'Byrne – 1993
Although the freshman research paper is the most institutionalized single writing assignment in the academy, the body of knowledge about it is neither extensive nor reflective. This paper explores the complex processes involved in a freshman writing student's inquiry and composing processes as he/she enacts a research assignment. It asks how a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition
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Hubbuch, Susan M. – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1990
Describes a heuristic conceit, "the writer's stance," to help students overwhelmed by the complexity and possibilities of a writing task regain control of the process. Stresses the need for writers to select vantage points and frames of analysis for their academic writings. (SR)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Heuristics
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Johanyak, Michael F. – Computers and Composition, 1997
Claims that participants in computer-mediated "chat" (CMC) produce a kind of hybrid text. Stresses the importance of investigating the individual texts and writing practices of each participant in CMC studies to better understand what occurs when language users bring individual cognitive, social, and contextual factors with them to a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Electronic Text
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Raphael, Taffy E.; Englert, Carol Sue – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes the Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Writing (CSIW) program by discussing: (1) knowledge bases that are useful for expository writing and reading; (2) features of instruction inherent in CSIW that help build knowledge for successful writing and reading; and (3) the effect of CSIW on students' expository writing and reading. (MG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension
Keller, Rodney D. – 1983
The process of getting a thought out of the mind and onto paper can be divided into five major categories: (1) discovering the word, (2) excavating the mythic word from the subconscious, (3) perceiving the word in the conscious, (4) verbalizing the expressed word, and (5) comprehending the unsaid word. When humans experience anything, their minds…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Higher Education, Metaphors
Peterson, Robert J. – 1984
The brain-flow writing technique, which might also be called the "fast flow" technique, offers a particularly useful means of helping adults overcome writer's block. It also offers some bonuses in the form of enhanced creativity, improved thought-flow, and much faster writing output. There are six steps to brain-flow writing. In the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Cognitive Processes, Free Writing, Learning Activities
DeFord, Diane – Network News, 1997
The goal in Reading Recovery is to support children to develop "in the head" operations or strategies that aid them to solve problems as they read and write continuous text. To help children in organizing experience and correct any idiosyncratic or unreliable relationships, teachers must understand how children develop their internal…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
Takala, Sauli; Vahapassi, Anneli – 1983
Twenty countries are participating in the IEA International Study of Written Composition, for which this is a background report. school-based writing in particular, this report discusses the functions of writing from the point of view of culture, cognition, and child development. It also presents a usable model for constructing and evaluating…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Context