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To describe the cognitive developmental trajectory of writing expertise from early childhood through professional adulthood.

June 1, 2008Journal of Writing ResearchOpen Access

Training writing skills: A cognitive developmental perspective

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RKRonald T. KelloggLinde (United States)

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Developmental review demonstrates a multi-decade progression from knowledge-telling to knowledge-crafting in writers, highlighting working memory demands during advanced composition.

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To describe the cognitive developmental trajectory of writing expertise from early childhood through professional adulthood.
Theoretical cognitive developmental framework analyzing compositional skill acquisition across more than two decades of maturation.
Novice writers advance from an initial 'knowledge-telling' stage to an adult 'knowledge-transforming' stage during cognitive maturation.
Expert professional writers reach a 'knowledge-crafting' stage by simultaneously manipulating planned content, generated text, and reader interpretation in working memory.

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Ronald T. Kellogg (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fc81c4cb800359c278dade https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2008.01.01.1

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Developmental review demonstrates a multi-decade progression from knowledge-telling to knowledge-crafting in writers, highlighting working memory demands during advanced composition.

Training writing skills: A cognitive developmental perspective

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Training writing skills: A cognitive developmental perspective

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