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Victoria Hernandez
Eng 1320/1301.161
Prof: Trang Phan
Date: 9/29/10



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Citation: Linda Flower. “Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing”. College English, Vol. 41 No. 1(Sep., 1979), pp. 19-37.

The article “Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing”, written by Linda Flower is based on the simple question “if writing is expressing what you think then why is it so hard to write?” Linda explores the relationship between “Writer-Based Prose”, which is the most familiar writing style and can be recognized by the structure, function, and style. Reader-Based Prose is also the connection that the writer tries to make between the writing and the reader. The two main parts to answering these questions are called “Inner Speech and Egocentrism”. In a similar study done by Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky both observed a pattern in children which they later named “the mode of speech”. When children played they “carry on spirited elliptical monologues, which mean that they only talk about themselves. In speech what we say does not always come out the same on paper or make much since in a simpler phenomenon “inner speech”. Both child and elders share three common features: a highly ellipiptical, secondly, inner speech frequently deals in the sense of words and third egocentric/inner speech is the absence of logical and causal relations.
Question
How would you identify a Writer-Based Prose and a Reader-Based Prose?
Response
Writer-Based prose represents a major and familiar mode of expression which we all use from time to time or in other word you can identify by identified by features of structure, function, and style. But Reader-Based Prose are Reader-Based prose is a deliberate attempt to communicate something to the reader