Revision Strategies of Student Writer and Experienced Adult Writers: Nancy Sommers
What many linear conceptions of the writing process miss: The recursive shaping of thought by language= revision
The linear model is based on speech but what is impossible in speech is revision
Conducted studies: student writer and experienced writer to see the role of revision
Many students did not use the term revision or rewriting
More as a rewording activity, clean up speech
Writing is translating: as the language of speech to more formal language of prose
Requiring lexical changes but not semantic changes: seeing their writing passively through eyes of part teachers or their surrogates, textbooks, and rules taught
Writers:
Revising as finding the form or shape of their argument
Writer is both agent and vehicle: develops like a seed not a line
Then concern for readership: imagine a reader
Process of discovering meaning altogether: importance of recognizing and resolving dissonance
The Basic Aims of Discourse: James Kinneavy
discourse=the full text, oral or written, delivered at a specific time and place or delivered at several instances
Determination of aims
It is dangerous in literature (and even more in persuasion) to assume that what the author says he is trying to do is actually what the work really accomplishes
A parallel danger is to assume that the reaction of
a given reader is an accurate indication of purpose
The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority
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