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Hiram Lopez
ENG 1301.28
Trang Phan
9/29/10
Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing
Summary:
Linda Flower. “Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing”. College English, Vol. 41, No. 1. (1979), pp. 19-37
In this article, when a writer is composing using writer based pros, he or she loses the reader by not keeping them in mind because they are writing their ideas in a way that is only understandable to them. A problem that can occur with writer based pros can be underdeveloped ideas, which can lead to poor discussions. A study about egocentric nature of a person was performed, which showed that children told stories but only talked about them because they did not have the cognitive capacity to assume the listeners point of view. In teaching writers to recognize their own writers based writing and transform it because it can give inexperienced writers, the confidence and motivation to go on. The style of writer based prose can come from internal thoughts and the use of code words, and by using semantic, episodic, and short term memory can help get ideas across to the reader to help them understand what you are trying to get across.
Question:
Can using writer based prose make you a better writer?
Response:
Writer based prose was when a writer focused on certain subject and made their writing comprehendible only to themselves and not to the people that read their work. Writer-based prose shouldn’t be scrapped, because teaching a writer to recognize their own writer-based prose can help them to transform their writing by giving the writer strong positive value and achievement for the writer even though he or she failed to communicate to the reader. This can give inexperienced writers the confidence and the motivation to go on. By recognizing this as a special skill and task, we can give writers self-conscious control over the abilities they already have. Because, writer-based prose is like a half-way place for many writers, it is like their a rough draft that can be transformed from the groundwork laid in the first stage of a process and begin to write in reader-based prose and making us better writers.