the activities. llsted below. Tasks and sub-tasks are REVIEW PLANNING Generating Organizing Goal-setting TRANSLATING REVIEWING Reading Editing Cognitive Processes in W r l t l n g Edited by Lee W. Gregg and Erwln R. $seinberg Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey (1980) I~ y o u asked ten different professional writers how they "'write", you would probably get ten different answers. And most of the answers probably would not have a lot of information about the process of writing. Writing is not like other tasks; most 9obs have a beginning, an end, and some clearly deflned procedure that gets you from the starting point to the ending point. I can describe in detail how to repair the disc brakes on my car~ I can describe it w e l l enough that someone else could do the 3ob without ever havlng seen my car before. I could not describe in detail how I wrote a fifty page short story: how I chose the layout, the words, the style. I 3 u s t d i d it. Cognitive Processes collection of papers two questions: What do write? we know in W r i t i n g that
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