Responds to an overly narrow view of process by applying Martin Heidegger's concept of interpretation to writing. Suggests Heidegger's "forestructure" is a useful model to give depth to problems in rhetoric and composition. (MS)

Presents Martin Greenspan's four-stage (preparatory, incubation, illumination, and verification) model of the creation of new thought. Argues that this model provides a way of seeing, identifying, and understanding features of writing to learn and learning to write that other composition theories have not permitted. (RS)

Contends that composition studies risks a detrimental borrowing of prestige from science, a borrowing that is not only potentially misleading but also too limiting if it draws attention away from the broad spectrum of considerations inherent in composition studies. (RAE)