SQR 5

Oscar Ramirez
Michael Silva
Eng 1320/1301
Tran Phan
09-28-10
SRQ 5
Linda Flower College English Vol. 41. No. 1 (Sep. 1979), Pg 19-37
In the article the author made point when people were writing they would make mistakes that were
careless and could be missed. Based on her research she notices that most of the stuff they so they put
new strategies on how to understand the reading. When they first started the experiment they studied
on small children on how they developed a sense of imagination and how they wrote it in a story form.
When they noticed that as they got older the way they wrote was different than what was expected
from them. They noticed that most of the writing was not up to its full potential. When they wrote
about a certain topic it they were off topic or they just did not make any sense for the other readers
could understand. They developed steps to improve their writing frame work. The steps were to
improve the writing by changing up certain wordings or phrases and then as usual rewrite the whole
essay to make it sound better. They build up that structure upon Function, Structure, and Style the
three ways to make the essay better and approved by other readers. If you follow the structure of the
plan eventually the paper should be will enough to show what data and other information is shown.


Q: What is the difference between Writer base prose and Reader base prose?


R: In the article the author points out two ways of writing in the article. One way of writing deals with
emotions, self-thoughts, and comments within their own writing. When they write like this it is called
Writers Base Prose it just means that the writers put thoughts of their own which to a point that other
readers read it and don’t understand it. Then the writer has to back and redo the whole writing to a
point for other readers can understand it and get the point of view. When the writers does that kind of
writing it makes it hard to understand what they are trying to say they write up to a point where the
other readers have to put thought in to it and understand what the other writer is trying to say in
between the writing. Most writers use the method when they want to make a personal log it to a journal
or keep thought to themselves to express. And in readers-base prose, the writer is taking his time to make sure that he is getting his point across to the preferred audience that he is trying to send out the message to. This means thinking everything over and making sure it is not confusing or going off topic and generally interesting to keep the audience fascinated about your paper. This can be a more time consuming process and maybe a little more difficult for some people.