How the Writing Medium Shapes the Writing Process: Effects of Word Processing on Planning
How the Writing Medium Shapes the Writing Process: Effects of Word Processing on Planning
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写作媒介如何塑造写作过程:文字处理对规划的影响
DOI:
10.58680/rte198915523
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
C. Haas
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C. Haas
This article presents a study examining the effects on planning processes of using pen and paper and word processing for composing. The study employed a 2-by-3 factorial design and a thinkaloud methodology. Experienced writers and student writers composed texts with pen and paper, with word processing, and with both media. Amount and kinds of planning were analyzed. Results showed significant differences between the pen and paper and the word processing alone conditions: when writers were using word processing alone, there was significantly less planning, significantly less planning before beginning to write, significantly less conceptual or high-level planning, and significantly more local or sequential planning than when they were using pen and paper. Surprisingly, there were no subject-by-condition interactions, nor were there clear differences between the condition which allowed writers to use both media and the other two conditions. Most theories of writing have acknowledged the importance of planning, and planning continues to be of interest to composition researchers. One reason for this interest may be that better writers seem to plan more. Bereiter and Scardamalia (1978a) found that while young writers are often unable to differentiate writing from planning, the planning of the more mature, adult writers was almost four times as long (in number of words spoken in a think-aloud protocol) as the text they produced from those plans. Flower and Hayes (1980) also found expert writers differed from novice writers in both the amount and the kind of planning they did during writing. Not only is planning the hallmark of the expert writer, but planning may be what allows us to learn as we write: the movement between text and plan may be where "discovery" during writing takes place (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1987b; Murray, 1984; Penrose, 1987). Planning in writing, like planning more generally, can be valuable because it is reAuthor's Note: This research was funded by a grant to the author, Christine Neuwirth, and John R. Hayes from the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) under grant number G008642161. Technical support was provided by the Information Technology Center at Carnegie-Mellon. Close readings by Christine Neuwirth, Nancy Spivey, John R. Hayes, David Kaufer, and Glynda Hull led to substantive improvements and are gratefully acknowledged. Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 23, No. 2, May 1989