Focusing techniques for checking a text during drafting and revision¶

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Description¶

The paper recommends developing a set of focusing techniques against which the writer measures what is being produced, both during writing and later with an eye to revising. It predicts that "continued use of foctsing techniques inrev:sing would lead to the formation of new writing habits' and tt the need for revision would dwindle". The criteria underlying the strategies are complex enough that writers cannot hold them all in mind at once, so the techniques serve as external checks on decisions about arrangement at all levels.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Research must first determine how readers respond to elements of varying relevance, so that the degree of tolerable non-expectedness for a given audience can be set.

Constraints¶

• The criteria underlying the strategies would be sufficiently complex that it would be unmanageable to bear them all in mind at once.

Target Learners¶

• student writers in higher education

Target Learning Goals¶

• guiding drafting and revision decisions about the arrangement of written discourse

Affordances¶

• Generative Stylistics Writing Decision Criteria

Related Strategies¶

• Self Monitoring In Writing
• Modeling Revision

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

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