Reading-to-Write - Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process (Hardcover)

The Social and Cognitive Studies in Writing and Literacy Series, is devoted to books that bridge research, theory, and practice, exploring social and cognitive processes in writing and expanding our knowledge of literacy as an active constructive process--as students move from high school to college.
This descriptive study of reading-to-write examines a critical point in every college student's academic performance: when he or she is faced with the task of reading a source, integrating personal ideas, and creating an individual text with a self-defined purpose. Offering an unusually comprehensive view of this process, the authors chart a group of freshmen as they study and write in their dormitories, recording their "think-aloud" strategies for reading, writing, and revising, their interpretation of the task, and their broader social, cultural, and contextual understanding of college writing. Flower, Stein, and colleagues convincingly conclude that the legacy of schooling in general makes the transition to college difficult and, more important, that the assumptions students hold and the strategies they use in undertaking this task play a significant role in their academic performance. Embracing a broad range of perspectives from rhetoric, composition, literacy research, literary and cultural theory, and cognitive psychology, this rigorous analysis treats reading-to-write as both a cognitive and social process. It will interest researchers and theoreticians in rhetoric and writing, teachers working with students in transition from high school to college, and educators involved in the links between cognition and the social process.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Social and Cognitive Studies in Writing and Literacy
Release date:	November 1990
First published:	September 1990
Authors:	Linda Flower • Victoria Stein • John Ackerman • Margaret J. Kantz • Kathleen McCormick • Wayne C. Peck (all members of the Center for the Study of Writing)
Dimensions:	243 x 163 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-506190-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-506190-X
Barcode:	9780195061901

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