WRIT 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carl Bereiter, Linda Flower, Linguistic Prescription

• School: York University
• Department: Writing
• Course: WRIT 2003
• Professor: John Spencer

Document Summary

Discover and telling sociolinguist; ideas already exist in discourse communities in which were a part find and discover these stories and ideas and re tell them to other community members. We are always revising when we write; constantly revising as we compose. Not focusing on the forms of oral communication. Both argue that invention is a creative process that is original to the writer. Ca(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sed or e(cid:448)e(cid:374) a(cid:272)(cid:272)uratel(cid:455) des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)ed. Fro(cid:373) this poi(cid:374)t of (cid:448)ie(cid:449), (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t tea(cid:272)h i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374); it (cid:373)esses up the (cid:374)atural (cid:272)reati(cid:448)e minds and their ability to create on their own. This is where we get the idea that invention is a creative gift: some have this gift and some do not and you cannot teach it. Tend to take a nurturing approach to writing; extensive practise modeling other texts; emersion in the text of particularly well written pieces; idea that you should read and follow these few geniuses and what they have written.