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Brie Fenton, Yesenia Ontiveros
English 1301.28
Trang Phang
Sept. 29, 2010


Writer-¬based Prose: a Cognitive Basis for Problems in writing
Flower, Linda. “Writer-¬based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing” College English Sept. 1979: pgs. 19-37
Summary:
Writer based prose is okay to do when a writer is writing to their self. When you add in other readers, it causes trouble. There are usually problems transferring your own thoughts into something others would understand. The reader based prose is when you are writing to communicate with the reader. You use terms and express ideas in a way readers will understand. During writer based, they dont keep in mind that the readers may not understand the point they are trying to get across.

"Reader based prose reflects the purpose of the writers thought; writer based prose tends to reflect its process." (20) Writer based prose shows writers how they dissect information and get it accross. It reflects their thinking process. First drafts are much like writer based proses. Once you get to the second draft, it makes much more sense and conforms to a writer based prose. "The structures which fail to work for readers may be powerful strategies for retrieving information from memory and for exploring one’s own knowledge network." (28)
Question:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of writer based prose?
Response:
The advantages of writer based prose, it to shows the writer how to come across the ideas and how the writing in transfer to paper. This process teaches them more about themselves and the way they write. The disadvantages are the reader may at times not know what the author is writing about, or get his thought across. This not bad because the reader may not get the full picture of what the author was trying to interpret.