Question: How do
successful and unsuccessful writers respond to writing assignments?
Answer: “Successful
writers use social and academic knowledge to write; unsuccessful writers adopt
formulas taught them or invent their own.” SA Gerring. 1990. P. 243.
Comment: Sounds like successful writers focus on
content, but already know how to organize their writing. Sounds like
unsuccessful writers struggle with the organizational schemes, rather than
content. That sounds a bit simplistic.
Probably unsuccessful writers struggle
not only with organization, but with grammar, spelling and surface problems of
writing. They don’t have time to focus on content with these worries on their
minds. RayS.
Title: “Annotated
Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” JD Marshall and RK Durst.
Research in the Teaching of English (May 1991), 236.
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