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Raymundo Rivera/Guillermo Cabrera

ENG 1320/1301 161

September 28, 2010

Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problem in Writing

Author: Linda Flower, Source: college English, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Sep., 1979), pp. 19-37

Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problem in Writing

            Linda starts the article with a great question, “why is writing often such a difficult thing to do?” Is hard for the writers to express exactly what they want to say, because we all think, understand and we all have different points of view of writings. Writers express themselves, and they perform as readers to see if it is easy to understand the meaning of his composition.

            Inner speech and Egocentrism this involves little to no social communicative functions as it said on Linda’s article. Egocentrism is when the child talks only about himself, does not expects answers and doesn’t care if people listens to him. The structure of Writer-Based prose; readers’ expect a good structure in a composition, we want things to be well organized and easy to understand with a good structure full of data and information. Is hard for a writer to explain what he is thinking, and write it down because is different how we think and the way we talk, this phrase came from this “think it/say it”. Formal writers have two main goals, one of them is to choose a more elegant way of explaining the meaning of the writing in other way they want to make thinks look more professional. The second one is to complete autonomy of the text which creates more complex problems. The article ends up with Linda saying that Writer-Based prose is not a composite of errors or a mistake that should be scrapped.

How does the author describe the egocentric nature?

She describes egocentric mainly talking about children. She describes it has inner speech; it is mainly when we write things for us. When the child doesn’t expect any question or answer to what he is writing. He only worries that he understands what he is writing down and really don’t care is people around listen to what he is trying to say. Inner speech and egocentric involves little to no social communication functions. Egocentric is perfect for people that aren’t good at dealing with other people. Egocentric is when a child talks only about himself and does not expect that people question his thoughts and ideas.