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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes
Author: Linda AllalPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400710488
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Revision Revisited LINDA ALLAL* & LUCILE CHANQUOY** *University ofGeneva, SWitzerland, **UniversityofNantes, France Revision is a fundamental component of the writing process. So fundamental that for some specialists writing is largely a matter of revising, or as Murray (1978) stated, "Writing is rewriting..." (p. 85). Experience with writing does not, however, automatically translate into increased skill in revision. Learning to revise is a lengthy, complex endeavor. Beginning writers do little revision spontaneously and even experienced writers encounter difficulties in attempting to improve the quality of their texts (Fitzgerald, 1987). Although revision has been extensively dealt with in the writing and learning-to write literature, this book proposes to "revisit" theory and research in this area through a series of new contributions. The introduction begins with an overview of what revision encompasses. It then examines two parallel interrogations that under lie the chapters assembled here, namely: (1) What are the implications of research on cognitive processes for instruction in revision? (2) What are the questions raised by instructional research for the investigation of cognitive processes of revision? A final section presents the chapters of this book.
Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Cognitive Writing Research to Cognitive Psychology
Author: Virginia Wise BerningerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1848729634
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
This volume tells the story of research on the cognitive processes of writing--from the perspectives of the early pioneers, the contemporary contributors, and visions of the future for the field. It includes the very latest in findings from neuroscience and experimental cognitive psychology, and provides the most comprehensive current overview on this topic.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Through the Models of Writing
Author: D. AlamargotPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401008043
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book provides both young and senior scientists with a comparative view of current theoretical models of text production. Models are clearly situated in their historical context, scrutinized in their further evolution with a fine-grained observation of differences between models. Very complete and informative to read, this book will be useful to people working in teaching of writing or studying this specific human activity.
Metacognition, Self-Regulation and Writing
Author: Dyanne EscorciaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 139429767X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Students' difficulties in producing texts that meet the requirements of academic writing are a recurring concern for teaching staff and those responsible for university courses. Various initiatives are currently being taken, mainly at undergraduate level, to help students improve the quality of their writing. Research into metacognitive processes and the self-regulation of learning can be used to support the design of these writing support systems, particularly by providing a better understanding of the students' difficulties. This book reviews the concepts of metacognition and self-regulation in relation to writing processes. It analyses the metacognitive components involved in text production, their links with successful writing and their individual and contextual determinants. It completes this analysis by drawing on the teaching and assessment of writing in higher education. All of these elements are articulated around a multifactorial modeling of the learning and teaching of academic writing.
Writing
Author: Elena L. GrigorenkoPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1848728123
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. It is an invaluable resource for researchers interested in language and cognition, and also educators and clinicians.
Second Language Instruction/acquisition Abstracts
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Developmental Aspects in Learning to Write
Author: L. TolchinskyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401007349
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Developmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial moment for the discovery of writing as an object worthy of intellectual inquiry (Havelock, 1986). A number of books, which came out in that decade, set the stage for this turn-to-writing. One of them was the Preface to Plato by Eric Havelock. This book, published in 1963, was to become a milestone in the discovery of literacy as a field of research (Bockheimer, 1998). Havelock (1986) referred to three more works that came out at the same time, and Bockheimer suggested adding other publications; for example La pensee sau vage by Levi Strauss (1962); The consequences of literacy by Jack Goody and Ian Watt (1963) and La geste et la parole by Laroi -Gourham (1964/65). The authors of these books were anthropologists, philosophers and sociologists who coincided in highlighting the significance of writing for human development and, more specifically, for language development. They maintained that many insti tutions, ideas, beliefs, opinions and convictions of the Western world were a by product of an 'alphabetized mind'. Writing was for them one of the pillars of subjec tivity, responsible for the rise of consciousness, for our conception of words and for our notion of true and false. Amazingly linguists, psycho linguists, psychologists and educators did not participate in the turn-to-writing. The firstl, did not give any atten- 1 There were some exceptions to this generalization.
Contemporary Tools and Techniques for Studying Writing
Author: T. OlivePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401004684
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This book brings together methods designed by psychologists, linguists, and practitioners who aim to study writing both within the laboratory and the workplace. Its primary focus is upon the computer-based techniques and methods available today that enable and foster new systematic investigations of writing theories and processes. It is of interest to writing professionals, teachers of writing, as well as those, like journalists, whose careers depend on managing multiple constraints and audiences for their work.