Activity:
- Form into your groups
- Write about anything on the board.
- Discuss what they experienced
- Writers block or easy flowing writing
Guidelines:
Write about the animal kingdom in general, there is no specific animal and description, food, or habitat.
Have to write about a specific animal and only that animal with out mentioning any other animal.
2 sentences and only describe the animal.
Rose associates two types of rules present in each writer's state.
Algorithmic = Writer's Block
Heuristic = Non- writer's Block
Teachers are the audience, they should not apply certain rules to writing but rather allow students to have creativity and discover. Students should be taught to keep an idea if they really like it and let the idea manipulate into the essay.
Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer's Block
By: Mike Rose
Quick Summary:
Rose analyzes how there are two types of writers, one with "writers block" who freeze up and are scared to break the rules of writing, and others who follow the rules more loosely to fit the ideas they already have.
Words to know...
Algorithmic: precise rules that will always result in a specific answer if applied to an appropriate problem
Heuristics: guidelines that allow varying degrees of flexibility when appraoching problems
Writer's Block: the frustrating, self-defeating inability to generate the next line, the right phrase, the sentences that will release the flow of words again
Studies:
He demonstrates an observation of ten UCLA students. Five students who were assumed to be "blocking" and the other five had signs of "Non-blocking".
Sylvia:
- Solid first draft: puts "weight" on it 1st paragraph = Good essay
- Planning strategies that as use in past assignment may NOT be the same for new assignment = Blocking
Laurel:
- taught to completely accept it as the "truth"
- Outline : ideas before writing
- Linear structure
- Original Plan