Discovery through writing: relationships with writing processes and text quality

Baaijen, Veerle and Galbraith, David (2018) Discovery through writing: relationships with writing processes and text quality. Cognition and Instruction, 36 (3), 199-223. (doi:10.1080/07370008.2018.1456431).

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Abstract

This study compares a problem-solving account of discovery through writing, which attributes discovery to strategic rhetorical planning and assumes discovery is associated with better quality text, to a dual-process account, which attributes discovery to the combined effect of 2 conflicting processes with opposing relationships to text quality. Low and high self-monitors were asked to write under 2 planning conditions. Keystroke-logging was used to assess the relationship of writing processes with discovery and text quality. The results support the dual-process account: Discovery was related to spontaneous sentence production and global revision of text, which had opposingrelationshipswithtextquality.

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