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Peer reviewedOliver, Lawrence J., Jr. – Journal of Reading, 1982
Suggests that a focus on traditional rules for good writing can create writer's block and offers strategies that focus on the topic and student's thinking for overcoming writing apprehension. (HOD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Higher Education, Models, Secondary Education
Download full textOverbeck, Lois More – 1984
The William Perry model of learning is directly parallel to what has been learned about writing processes. He observed that the student is essentially a dualist who sees everything as right or wrong. This stance of absolute acceptance wavers when the student encounters varieties of or disagreements among truths, thus gradually evolving into the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Rose, Mike – 1984
Noting that the problem of writer's block is often rooted in such cognitive difficulties as rigid or inappropriate composing rules and planning strategies, this study approaches writer's block as a measurable problem that can be analyzed and remedied. The introductory chapter defines writer's block and pertinent terms, discusses a cognitive model…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Models
