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To examine the cognitive mechanisms underlying writing difficulties and explain why self-expressive prose often fails to communicate meaning effectively to external audiences.

September 1, 1979College English

Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing

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To examine the cognitive mechanisms underlying writing difficulties and explain why self-expressive prose often fails to communicate meaning effectively to external audiences.
Conducted a theoretical cognitive analysis contrasting internal, associative self-expression with reader-oriented communicative prose.
Evaluated the functional and structural characteristics of undertransformed thought during the composing process.
Writer-based prose represents an unretouched, associative record of internal verbal thought that satisfies the writer but lacks the context required by readers.
Pervasive compositional issues, including missing referents, underdeveloped ideas, and unfocused discussions, originate from a failure to transform private thought into reader-based expression.

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Conceptual analysis shows that undertransformed writer-based prose causes communication breakdown, suggesting effective writing requires converting private thought into reader-centered structures.

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Linda Flower (1979) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a08f91e1be1a34de49d0580 https://doi.org/10.2307/376357

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Conceptual analysis shows that undertransformed writer-based prose causes communication breakdown, suggesting effective writing requires converting private thought into reader-centered structures.

Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing

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Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing

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