Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers by Nancy Sommers

***FRUITS***
"Two representative models are Gordon Rohman's suggestion that the composing process moves from prewriting to writing to rewriting and James Britton's model of the writing process as a series of stages described in metaphors of linear growth, conception--incubation--production."(378)

"What is impossible in speech is revision: like the example Barthes gives revision in speech is afterthought. In the same way each stage of the linear must be exclusive or else it becomes trivial and counterproductive to refer to these junctures as stages"(379)

"Writing has spacial and temporal features not apparent in speech-- words are recorded in space and fixed in time --which is why writing is susceptable to reordering and later addition. Such features make possible the dissonance that both provokes revision and promises from itself, new meaning."(386)

"For the experienced writers the heaviest concentration of changes is on the sentence level,and the changes are predominantly by addition and deletion"(386)

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