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Flower, Linda; Hayes, John R. – 1981
In an examination of two alternative hypotheses about the role played by pauses in the planning of writing, this paper focuses on the long, "pregnant" pause. The first section of the paper examines the two alternative hypotheses about planning, one based on the theoretical perspective of linguistics and the other on the assumptions of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, Planning, Prewriting

Flower, Linda; Hayes, John R. – College Composition and Communication, 1980
Provides a model of the rhetorical problem, based on the study of writing as a problem-solving cognitive process; describes three major differences between good and poor writers revealed by a protocol analysis study. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, High Achievement