Reflection: A Critical Component of the Composing Process

Sharon Pianko

College Composition and Communication · 1979 · 40 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

'See Janet Emig, Composing Process of Twelfth Graders (Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 1971); Margaret W. Sawkins, The Oral Responses of Selected Fifth Grade Children to Questions Concerning Their Written Expression, Ed.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1971; Charles K. Stallard, An Analysis of the Writing of Good Student Writers, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1972; Donald H. Graves, Children's Writing: Research Directions and Hypotheses Based Upon an Examination of the Writing Process of Seven-Year-Old Children, Ed.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973; Richard Beach, Self-Evaluation Strategies of Extensive Revisers and Nonrevisers, CCC, 27 (May, 1976), 160-164. ing processes of different types of stude ts. Essentially, part of the research I co ducted was designed to meet these ne d . What follows is a brief description of this research.2 (The collection of the data was a collaborative effort