1st Edition

Landmark Essays on Writing Process Volume 7

By Sondra Perl Copyright 1995
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

As the field of composition studies became more sophisticated in its understanding of research, the designs and assumptions underlying the early work were called into question. Researchers were challenged to design studies that were sensitive to the varying contexts in which writers write and to the ways their own roles shaped their investigations. The more comprehensive studies called for by... Read more
Contents: S. Perl, Introduction: Writing Process: A Shining Moment (1994). J. Emig, The Composing Process: Review of the Literature (1971). D.H. Graves, An Examination of the Writing Processes of Seven-Year-Old Children (1975). S. Perl, The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers (1979). L. Flower, J.R. Hayes, The Cognition of Discovery: Defining a Rhetorical Problem (1980). N. Sommers, Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers (1980). M. Rose, Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer's Block (1980). S. Perl, Understanding Composing (1980). A.E. Berthoff, The Intelligent Eye and the Thinking Hand (1983). M. Hairston, The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing (1982). C. Berkenkotter, Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer (1983). J.A. Reither, Writing and Knowing: Toward Redefining the Writing Process (1985). L. Faigley, Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal (1986). M-Z. Lu, From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle (1987). E.A. Flynn, Composing as a Woman (1988). W.F. Irmscher, Finding a Comfortable Identity (1987). L. Runciman, Fun? (1991). D.M. Murray, All Writing Is Autobiography (1991). N. Sommers, Between the Drafts (1992). A. Dillard, The Writing Life (1989). D. Metzger, Writing for Your Life (1992). W. Stafford, A Way of Writing (1970). B. Ueland, Everybody Is Talented, Original and Has Something Important to Say (1938).

Biography

Sondra Perl