This is the premise which the author, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, carries throughout the book. It is an alarming notion for some, acceptable to others, but nonetheless fresh and thought provoking to most. As scientists, we often delegate the actual writing process to a secondary role in the process of scientific investigation and reporting. But as ...

This paper describes the adaptation and writing process of writers who have started using speech recognition systems for writing business texts. The writers differ in their previous writing experience. They either have previous classical dictating experience or they are used to writing their texts with a word processor. To gather the process data for this study we chose complementary research m...

We examine the effect of participation in an 8-week writing group in six nursing homes. Pretest and posttest assessments of cognitive and affective functional status were administered to 62 participants and 54 control subjects. We asked writing-group participants about previous writing experience and perceived ability to convey feelings, ideas, life experiences, and memories to others. Weekly a...

The learning process of academic writing is already difficult for many students. online environment can either hinder or facilitate writing. seen as cyclical. In the context this study, writer starts with planning stage. Once done, translates ideas into written form in a draft. then reviews If unhappy draft, he/she makes plans to repair, and resumes circle. This quantitative research done inves...

What are the students' news writing challenges in fourth semester of Grade E, according to this study's major issue? And what cognitive process-based characteristics that affect difficulty with grade E? The goal was determine E and factors affecting those based on processes at time. focus study semester's twenty-two student population. Qualitative Research Method employed study. information acq...

Background: This paper discusses a writing for recovery narrative practice development project based on Deleuzian theoretical principles. Creative writing was based on a formulation of ‘recovery’ as transcending the social invalidation, discrimination and abusive effects of institutional psychiatry. Aims and objectives: • To provide a safe space for participants to explore the creative writing ...