Losing the Product in the Process

Abstract

ew researchers would dare dispute that movement has done wonders to improve teaching of writing. Emig's The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders and other publications of late 1960s and early 1970s made point that a strictly grammatical approach to writing did not reflect way that students actually wrote. In 1973 National Writing Project was established to help promulgate concept that writing might not necessarily follow circumscribed steps suggested in lessons available in textbooks, many of which focused upon intricacies of outlining, grammar, and spelling. Later, Flower and Hayes contributed some handy flowcharts that seemed to map out rather neatly cognitive processes associated with writing At end of millennium, the writing process has become so accepted as paradigm for composition that even Warriner's now devotes huge sections of its erstwhile grammatical textbook to the process.