Training writing skills: A cognitive developmental perspective

Authors

  • Ronald T. Kellogg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2008.01.01.1

Keywords:

cognitive development, professional writers, training, working memory, writing skills

Abstract

Writing skills typically develop over a course of more than two decades as a child matures and learns the craft of composition through late adolescence and into early adulthood. The novice writer progresses from a stage of knowledge-telling to a stage of knowledge-transforming characteristic of adult writers. Professional writers advance further to an expert stage of knowledge-crafting in which representations of the author's planned content, the text itself, and the prospective reader's interpretation of the text are routinely manipulated in working memory.

Published

2008-06-15

How to Cite

Kellogg, R. T. (2008). Training writing skills: A cognitive developmental perspective. Journal of Writing Research, 1(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2008.01.01.1

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