SQR #5 Miguel Garcia, Jose Mata

Student’s name: Jose Mata, Miguel A. Garcia
ENG 1320/1301. 161
Instructor’s name: Trang Phan
Date: September 29, 2010

Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive for Problems in Writing

This article talks about the differences between writing and talking, although we often equate writing with the straightforward act of saying that we mean there are important details to know. Writing prose that actually communicates what we mean to another person demands more than a simple act of self expression, what communication theory does not tell us is how writers do it.

            The writer-based prose is the expression of writer’s thoughts written by his self to his self. It tends to reflect the process of rhetorical thinking. The writer-based prose replay the writer’s discovering process without letting the reader the developing of the rhetorical structure. As well as inner speech, the writer-base prose assumes the understanding of the people and does not care about the needs of the reader. It is like an egocentric speech, it only talks about itself, does not expect any reaction from the reader.

The writer not only writes what he thinks, he has to transform his words and ideas in complex but describable ways for the needs of the reader. Writers has to use their own experience and information in order to turn facts into concepts, articulate the meaning they saw in the data ,secondly  writers has to build  a rhetorical structure which help him to recognize  the function of these ideas have for the reader. Headings, topic, sentences and even some of the subjects are very important because everyone conform the rhetorical structure

Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive for Problems in Writing

Author: Linda Flower

Source: College English, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Sep., 1979), pp. 19-37

The writer-base prose is important because is the expression of the writer’s feelings the “felt sense,” yet the writer must know how to transform the paper to enable the reader to develop a rhetorical structure of the paper.

How transformation affects writer-base prose?

            The writer base prose does not let the reader to develop a rhetorical structure, does not give enough information and does not care about the reader needs. With the transformation the writer is more aware of reader expectations and turns the facts into concepts. This way the reader has a better understanding and is able to create a rhetorical structure of the text.