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Kristopher M. Lotier – College Composition and Communication, 2016
Around 1986, inventional researchers began to presuppose an externalist philosophy of mind, thereby ushering in the postprocess era. Ecological composition and posthumanism, now understood as postprocess inventional models, present direct pedagogical applications, allowing different objects (e.g., databases, search engines) to qualify as writing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Cognitive Processes
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Gebhardt, Richard – Writing Instructor, 2011
"Process and Intention: A Bridge from Theory to Classroom" is rooted in a time when intuitive, experience-based awareness that we should "Teach Writing as a Process Not Product" (Murray 3) was bolstered by systematic research into the complexity of writing. Lots of years have passed since those days, so as a reminder, the author mentions five…
Descriptors: Intention, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Cognitive Processes
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Brame, Victoria Winterhalter – Inquiry, 2011
Most students avoid the reflective nature the writing process requires. Their resistance to meta-cognition, thinking about one's thinking, often means they are incapable of capitalizing on their strengths or improving upon their weaknesses. The author believes students who are familiar with writers' lives and habits will be that much more…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Exercises, Writing Instruction, Authors
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Webb, Grahame – English in Australia, 1980
A scientist explains the processes he uses to draft and redraft articles for scientific journals. (RL)
Descriptors: Authors, Cognitive Processes, Scientists, Writing Processes
Sydow, Debbie L. – 1994
Despite the fact that social constructivism is accepted as the guiding theory in Composition, that this theory is the field's theoretical center of gravity, it does not account for, nor explain, the entire writing process. Two major challenges to social constructivism must also be considered in theoretical discussions: (1) the cognitive dimension…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Expressionism, Higher Education, Writing Instruction
Russow, Lilly-Marlene – 1981
An important aspect of the composing process is the element of organization--the coherent development of ideas and considerations of relevance. Most investigations of this aspect have focused on prewriting behavior or on "heuristics,""frames," or other approaches that presuppose that organization is something imposed from the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Higher Education, Logic
Lund, Darren E. – Highway One, 1986
Documents the search for an adequate conceptualization of writing and argues for the inclusion of personal experiences with composition as the basis for any teaching or research activity. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Experiential Learning, Writing Processes
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Cooper, Marilyn; Holzman, Michael – College Composition and Communication, 1983
Examines the "cognitive process theory of writing" expounded by writing researchers Linda Flower and John R. Hayes, discussing problems with their theory and with the methodology on which it is based. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Research Problems, Writing Processes
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Smith, Frank – Language Arts, 1981
Clarifies 21 misconceptions about the nature of writing, how writing is learned, the act of writing, and who can teach writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Philosophy, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Koch, Richard – Freshman English News, 1980
Argues that, in understanding creativity and the process of composing, it is helpful to think in terms of the metaphysical concept and while polar opposites appear to be contradictory, they are part of the same whole. Suggests some polarities that help in understanding the creative process in writing. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Higher Education, Prewriting
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Perl, Sondra – College Composition and Communication, 1980
Explores the alternating mental perspectives that writers assume during the composing process, from inner experience to outer judgment and back to experience. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Processing, Writing (Composition)
Wikborg, Eleanor – 1992
This study investigated the writing habits of seven professionals who regularly use word processing to compose texts at work. The aim of the investigation was to get some idea of the variation to be found in how these writers use word processing to compose longer texts (four pages or more). Subjects noted advantages of word processing, such as the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Employment, Foreign Countries, Word Processing
Ewald, Helen Rothschild – 1981
Clinical report writing involves two interlinking processes--creation and communication. There are six stages of clinical inference that find parallels in generative writing stages: possessing a postulate system, constructing the major premise, observing for occurrences, instantiating (classifying) the occurrences, reaching a referential product,…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Technical Writing
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Mandel, Barrett J. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Writing is not the result of thinking but rather a way of thinking, and it is distinct from editing, which involves making one's writing conform to agreed upon rules. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Editing, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
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Iyasere, Marla Mudar – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1984
Points out that the future of technical writing can be sustained only if teachers persist in setting for technical writing the same standards they apply to other sophisticated modes of writing, and if they require refinement in style as well as accuracy in content. (MS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language, Perception
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