WRIT 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Elie Wiesel, Linguistic Prescription
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The structuring and patterning of ideas, explication, narration and other elements of the text coherently by meeting the reader"s genre and discourse community expectations. Arrangement and process: planning and organizing comes before drafting/composing. E. four components of revision: 1. In all genres, fiction and non-fiction, information is the basis of the text. The writer looks for language in the text that the information can be represented: 2. Arrangement perceived as external, for the reader only if you have the same text and change the pattern, the meaning of the text changes. Arrangement is essential to making meaning: 3. Language the manipulation of language that is essential to revision: 4. Each writer has their own unique voice. 7 themes to take away for sommer"s writing: 1. The imagined reader seems to be partly a reflection of the writer herself, and could be understood to function as a critical collaborator: 3. Flower: emphasize planning as a component of effective writing.