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Blog: on the composing process,

I found this essay really interesting and helpful in understand the writing process. The findings that every writer goes through three steps, is obvious but also helpful to understand. I thought that in constricted the theory of Murray that 85% of writing is prewriting, but the again it’s a study of “unskilled” writers. By the way the sample writer they had, John, I don’t think was a great choice; because unskilled writer would have been a complement for this guy. I understand this was a study of students who were not particularly, but couldn’t they have picked people who have an understanding of the language but have problems in essay writings? I liked the idea but was not too pleased with the selection of the study. But it did help give a clear scientific understanding what the writing process especially the revising process is. This brings us to the other article by Nancy Summers, who also put science in the English classroom. Her study was on revising, how inexperienced writers compared to experienced writers. She did a nice study on the differences of revision of the two groups. The younger writers seemed to be more focused on grimmer and deleting repeated words and phrases then the overall structure of the paper. And the overall structure of the paper is exactly what the more experienced writers focused on. They wanted to have the reader to fully understand their argument and then they focused on editing the grammar and spelling.