The period in the writing process where a problem is presented.
What is the Inroductory Period.
100
She presents composing as a way of "making meanings" (293)
Who is Ann E. Berthoff?
100
Elbow's essay claims that this group (or individual) contributes most heavily to writer's block.
What is audience.
100
The C word that represents our world before we are able to make meaning of it through writing.
What is chaos?
100
These two authors both refer to the power of language as a means of making meaning in our readings this week.
Who are Berthoff and Elbow.
200
Two types of "rules" utilized in the "processing period"
What are heuristic and algorithmic?
200
Another name that Berthoff give to the composing process, the "means by which meanings are hypothesized, identified, developed, modified, discarded, or stabilized" (296).
What is interpretive paraphrase?
200
These are the two types of audiences that can affect your ability to write.
What are inviting(enabling) and inhibiting.
200
According to Berthoff, this L word is a "form-finder and form-creator that makes possible naming and opposition an definition... creat[ing] order from chaos...frames dialectic, limits the field, forms the questions and answers, starts the dialectic and keeps it going...makes choice possible" (302).
What is Language.
200
This is the colloquial term for the subject that all three of this week's authors seem to be addressing.
What is writer's block.
300
Defined by Miller, Galanter, and Pribram as "any hierarchal process in the organism that can control the order in which a sequence of operations is to be performed"(151).
What is a plan?
300
Berthoff states that this part of the human body "naturally orders by comparing and differentiating" (299)
What is the mind.
300
This method of writing "prevents you from seeing what you have written" in order to "help you become less of an audience-of-self for your writing" (188).
What is "invisible writing"
300
The A word that Berthoff suggests that students must "learn to tolerate" in order to "discover meaning" (295)
What is Ambiguity.
300
These two authors might argue that students are more affected in their writing by outside forces, such as audience and instructors, than by the internal process of writing itself.
Who are Rose and Elbow.
400
Defined by Gagne as "an inferred capability that enables the individual to respond to a class of stimulus situations with a class of performances" (151).
What is a rule?
400
Berthoff suggests that forms provide these, which "make choices possible and thus free the imagination"
What are limits.
400
Elbow often refers to this geographic analogy for a mode of writing while ignoring the audience occurs.
What is "desert island mode"
400
According to Berthoff "dialogue and dialectic are" this C word meaning related or connected(299).
What is cognate.
400
These two authors both discuss the developmental psychology aspect of writing.
Who are Elbow and Berthoff.
500
This rule allows for more flexibility in problem solving, providing "solutions that are good enough most of the time" (151).
What is heuristics?
500
This is the only "context" in which Berthoff suggests that "language can" be "realized" (297). It has to do with the relationships between people.
What is the social context.
500
These are the two things that Elbow references as "contrary tasks" in teaching students writing (188).
What are " the social dimension in writing" and "the private dimension of writing"
500
Elbow suggests that writing should accomplish the action of this D word for BOTH the writer and the reader, referencing Melville as being successful at this process (177).
What is to "decenter"
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!! The acronym TOTE stands for Test, Operate, Test (post-operation) and Exit. This author discusses this TOTE test in his text.