Understanding Composing by Sondra Perl

***FRUITS***
Steps to Retrospective Structuring
"1) The most visible recurring feature or backward movement involves re-reading little bits of discourse. Few writers I have seen write for long periods of time without returning to what is already written down on the page." (364)

"2) The second recurring feature is some key word or item called up bythe topic. Writers consistently return to their notion of the topic throughout the process of writing."(364)

"3) There is a third background movement in writing, one that is not so easy to document. It is not easy because the move itself cannot immediately be identified with words. The move draws on sense experience, and  can be observed if on pays close attention to what happens when writers pause and seem to listen or otherwise react to what is inside of them."(364)


Steps to Projective Structuring 
"1) Although projective structuring is only one part of the composing process, many writers act as if it is the whole process. These writers focus on what they think other want them to write rather than looking to see what it is that they want to write."(368)


"2) Many writers reduce projective structuring to a series of rules or criteria for evaluating finished discourse. These writers ask 'Is what I'm doing correct?' and does it confirm the rules that I've been taught?"()