Successful writing requires that the writer first become a sufficiently skillful reader to estimate the effect of the text on a prospective audience¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1977 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because a design page cites it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? The article argues that successful writing is impossible unless the would-be writer first becomes a sufficiently skillful reader, able to estimate the effect of his or her own texts on a prospective audience. → de Beaugrande 1977

Evidence¶

de Beaugrande 1977¶

de Beaugrande, Robert. (1977). Writing as a Decision Process. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED159704

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical argument in the paper: decision-making criteria for writing must be "lovertly, 'obeervable, in samples of good writing", which the author links to the relevance of literature as conscious training in control of language. No empirical data are reported.

"successful writing is impossible:maless the would, be writer first becomes a sufficientlyskiliful reader' to be able to estimate the effect of his or her own texts on a prospective Audience"

Studies bearing on this claim¶

What must a learner be able to do to write for a reader, and can the audience's knowledge be used to set the task? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 2 narrower claims that bear on it: 2 distinct studies (1 theoretical, 1 qualitative), q1–q2, 0 of 2 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

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