Journal of Writing Research Jun 2008 OA PDF

Training writing skills: A cognitive developmental perspective

R.T. Kellogg

Abstract

Writing skills typically develop over a course of more than two decades as a child matures and learns the craft of composition through late adolescence and into early adulthood. The novice writer progresses from a stage of knowledge-telling to a stage of knowledge-transforming characteristic of adult writers. Professional writers advance further to an expert stage of knowledge-crafting in which representations of the author's planned content, the text itself, and the prospective reader's interpretation of the text are routinely manipulated in working memory.

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Journal of Writing Research
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2008-06-01
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10.17239/jowr-2008.01.01.1
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