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Training writing skills: a cognitive developmental perspective

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Kellogg, R.T.·2008·Journal of Writing Research

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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.

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Authors
Kellogg, R. T.
Corresponding author
Kellogg, R.T.
Venue
Journal of Writing Research
Published
2008-06
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
1-26
ISSN
  • 2030-1006 (ISSN-L)
  • 2294-3307
OpenAlex
W2316375164
Cited by
868
References
134
Citations by year
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FWCI
72.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
Journal of Writing Research (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Keywords
writing skills, cognitive development, writing instruction, novice writers, expert writers, knowledge transformation, working memory, text planning, reader interpretation

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