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Zalina Nazarova and Adrian Badillo
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Trang Phan
Writer-based prose: a cognitive basis for problems in writing.
This article talks about writer-based prose, a study of a transformation, its function, structure and style. Writing prose communicates what we mean to another person. Effective writers don’t simply express thought they transform it in certain complex in ways for the needs of a reader. Writer-based prose is a verbal expression written by writer to himself or for himself. It is also the record and the working of his own verbal thought. In contrast reader-based prose is attempted to communicate something to a reader. That creates a shared language and shared context between writer and reader. In its language and structure, reader- based prose reflects the purpose of the writer’s thought and tends to reflect its process. Writer-based prose can be identified by features of structure, function, and style. The structure of write-based prose reflects an economical strategy we have for coping with information. Readers expect writers to produce complex concepts- to collect data and details under larger guiding ideas and place those ideas in integrated network. For an inexperienced writer the complex transformation of a periodic sentence can be difficult juggling act. So the good writer is the one who strive for reader-based prose from the very beginning: they retrieve and organize information within the framework of a reader/writer contract.
Q. What is a survey strategy that writers use and how effective is it?
R. Writers use a survey strategy to compose because it’s a powerful procedure for retrieving and organizing information. When writers have gone through the composing process, it means that they have taken a piece of writing from the stage in which they develop ideas and think about ways of organizing them, through drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. In practice; it is much messier, some¬ times jumping ahead, sometimes looping back. Nevertheless, most writing— and all successful academic writing—is the result of the writer's attention to all these stages. A survey strategy offers the writer a useful way into the composing process in two ways. First, it eliminates many of the constraints normally imposed by a speech act, particularly the contract between reader and writer for mutually useful discourse. Secondary, a survey of one’s own stored knowledge, marching along like a text book. To be clear most of the advantages here accrue to the writer. One of the assumptions of the writer-based writer is that once the relevant information is presented, the reader will do the work of abstracting the essential features, building a conceptual hierarchy, and transforming the whole discussion into a functional network of ideas. It may be also a useful road into a creative process for some writers.