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Javier Lopez
Ryan Martinez
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Trang Phan
9/28/10

Writer-based prose- A cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing

On the article by “Linda Flower” she states that to be effective writers you have to give more details on what your writing. Writer-based prose is mainly giving your “private verbal thought” (page 21.) about what the story is about. As for reader-based prose readers just “skim quickly” (pg. 22) though what they read and don’t correct the mistakes. They “attempt to communicate to the reader”(pg. 20) as they progress and “reflects the purpose of the writer's thought.” (pg. 20) Egocentric doesn’t do much but just want things in hand, just like a reader-based prose. Inner Speech is the same to a writer-based prose, because that shows that they give details and go beyond those thoughts to express themselves. They have to learn to be a reader-based prose first, so you can become a writer-based prose. To know that one day we can become writer-based prose, it motivates us to continue the “multistage process” (pg 37) of transforming our thoughts to something that captivates the readers. To learn the skills and confidence to develop to become better writers.

Q. What does writer-base prose fail to do in terms of Rhetorical Strategies? Please Explain

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Here Linda Flowers explains that the reason writer-base prose fails is because it focuses more on emotion and lacks a connection between the reader and writer. This causes a problem, because the reader cannot make any relation to the writers thoughts and ideas. Creating a bond with the writers ideas makes it much easier to read and understand the concept of the writers article