SRQ5

Eloy Gonzales
Arturo de la Torre
Trang Phang
9/28/10

Linda Flower. “Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing”. College English, Vol. 41, No. 1. (Sep., 1979), pp. 19-37.

S: Linda Flower clearly explains the problems that writers have a hard time saying what they want to say inform that readers can understand. There is a problem with many writers that don’t know how to transform their ideas in a way that the reader can understand. The author explains the writer-base prose by standing off with inner speech and egocentric and discovered that many writers have a hard time using words that transition you from thought to another without being monotone. Writer-Base prose is a workable concept, which can help understand that it can be a way to intervene in the thinking process, it taps intuitive communication strategies us as writers already have, but are not adequately using. There are three steps necessary in Writer-base prose which is function, structure, and style and each make an important part in this writer-prose understanding. Reader-Base prone the writer has to put himself in the readers shoes, he/she thinks more about the reader the as oppose to the writer-base prone.

Q: How would you identify a Writer-Base prose and a Reader-Base prose?

R: In my opinion a Writer-Base prose is a writer that writes for himself. For example a journal or a personal diary is a place where a writer-base can write without being questioned of his work or being criticized. The Writer-Based prose writes for their own understanding. In reader based prose, my opinion is that the writer is writing to fit the audience and thinks more of the audience and what the audience is going to look in its paper. In Reader-Based the author tries to make a point and helps the reader understand what the message is. A Writer-Base prose writer writes what they are usually thinking about without having the thought of being responded to. Writer-base writers write for themselves and do not take into consideration if the readers understand what they have written or care if they are criticized. A Reader-Base prose in the other hand takes into consideration his audience and tries to make his writing more understandable for his reader making space for comments and other suggestions. An example of a Reader-Base prose is a research paper, where the writer needs to explain their point to the audience. I believe that the Reader-Base prose and Writer-Base prose are both important because even though the writer-base is mostly ideas and thoughts; those ideas and thoughts could be used later on when writing on a reader-base prose side. Those ideas can help have a base on the writing that is going to become reader-based which is organized for the reader to understand.