SQR 5 Brenda Carmona

Brenda Carmona

ENG 1320/1301. 161

Trang Phan

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

SQR 5

Writer-Based prose and Reader-Based prose are each a different kind of writing. Writer-Based prose focuses on yourself it is the work of one’s own verbal thought. It is not concerned how the reader understands it but how they better understand it. Their language shifts from one statement to another to express themselves. Writer-Based prose fails to do some Rhetorical Strategies because it doesn’t focus on the audiences understanding but on their own understanding.  Reader-Based focuses on the readers the writer tries to communicate the best way they can with the reader. Their language and structure reflects the purpose of the writer’s thoughts for the reader to better understand. Writer-Based prose can be useful in brainstorming or writing a rough draft and once the person has done that you can revise it with characteristics of the Reader-Based prose. Egocentric nature is known when someone talks only about themselves, lacks the ability to see others points of views or opinions it is not the proper way to go. It is selfish if you know you are doing it and keep doing it on purpose but it isn’t selfish when it comes to your knowledge. 

Question:

How would you identify Writer-Based prose and Reader-Based prose?

Response:

To begin with everyone writes a different way so it can be any of these two kinds of writings. Writer-Based prose is when someone focuses just on themselves and what he/she understands rather than is the audience understands what he/she is writing about. “It is the record and the working of his or her own verbal thought. (pg. 18)” Their language usually shifts from one statement to another to express themselves. Reader-Based prose is when the writer tries to communicate with the reader the best way he/she can. “Reader-Based prose reflects the purpose of the writers thoughts. (pg. 19)”