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Five of the Twelve principal features for the Paradigm Shift in composition studies that Maxine Cousins Hairston identified in her 1982 article, “The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing.”
What is
1) writing process;
2) strategies for invention and discovery;
3) rhetorically based on audience, purpose, and occasion; 4) evaluation of the written product;
5) Writing as recursive not linear;
6) View writing as holistic;
7) Writing is a way of learning and developing ;
8) classes include a variety of writing modes, expressive and expository;
9) writing is informed by other disciplines, especially cognitive psychology and linguistics;
10) It views writing as an activity that can be taught; 11) It is based on linguistic research;
12) It stresses the principle that writing teachers should be people who write.