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Rigid Rules, Inflexible

Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer's Block

Author: Mike Rose

Mike Rose

One of Rose’s most significant contributions is his reevaluation of remedial writers. His best seller "Lives on the boundary" argues that "remedial students lack literacy skills not through a shortage of intelligence but because of a history of poor education and a lack of supportive social and economic conditions." Currently, Rose is Professor of Social Research Methodology in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Knowing the author

Mike Rose

MLA Citation of the article

He was born in 1944 in Altoona, Pennsylvania to Italian immigrants Tommy Rose and Rose Meraglio. Rose is a nationally recognized American education scholar.

In 1981 Rose received his PhD in education from UCLA and in 1994 was hired as a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Mike Rose has been teaching for nearly forty years.

Rose, Mike. “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s

Block.” College Composition and Communication 31.4 (1980): 389-401.

Rule: "an inferred capability that enables the individual

to respond to a class of stimulus situations with a class of

performances." Rules are the major organizing factor, and quite possible the primary one, in intellectual functioning.

Algorithm: a precise rule that will always result in a specific answer if applied to an appropriate problem.

Heuristics: guidelines that allow varying degrees of flexibility when approaching problems.

Set:

Plans: "Hierarchical processes in the organism that can control

the order in which a sequence of operations is to be perfomed."

Words you should know

Cognitive analysis: this method focus on the psychological processes underlying the competition of a task. Use cognitive analysis whenever complex decisions are required and few observable behaviors can be identified.

Introductory period: a problem is presented, and all theorists, from , or Behaviorist to Gestalt to Information Processing, admit that certain aspects, stimuli or functions of the problem must become or be made salient and attended to in certain ways if successful problem-solving processes are to be engaged.

Processing period: "weighing"possible solutions as they are stumbled upon and, at the most, goes through an elaborate and sophisticated infromation-processing routine to achieve a problem solution.

Solution period: an end-state of the process where "stress"and "search"

terminate, an answer is attained, and a sense of completion or "closure" is experienced.

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