SQR3 Mayra Hernandez

Revision Strategies of Students Writers and Experienced Adult Writers
Authors: Nancy Sommers
Source: College Composition And Communication, Vo. 31, No. 4 (Dec. 1980) pp. 378-388

Recently Nancy Sommers did and investigation of various aspects of the writing process and discovered that research on revision has been absent. She mention some models of writing process do not have revision, these models are linear and separete the writing in stages. Two models are Gordon Rohman`s model he aaid that the composing process go from prewriting to writing to rewriting. On the other hand Jamas Britton`s model describe the writing process as a series on linear way like conception-incubation and production. The lineas model is based pm speech and two defferent ways. The first way is based on traditional rhetoric model and the other one in contemporany models of writing. For instance Edward Corbett describes the "five parts of discourse" as inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria , pronuntario, he did a very familiar model comparete with Britton`s model. She describes the revision process as a sequence of changes , she used a study approch of twenty experienced adult writers and twenty students, each studen wrote three essays, expressive, explonatory and persuasue and rewrote each essay twice, the essays were revising and indentifief as : deletion, substitution, addition and organization. They had to revised their writings , some students do no use the revision term , they called as " scratch out and do it again". "reviewing", "redoing", "making out" and others. The students undestand the revision process as rewording activity and they concentrate on a particular words apart from their role in the text.

What are the five parts of writing process on Edward theory?

He describes the "five parts of a discourse " as invetio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria , pronuntario.