The Role of Reading and Writing While Composing from Sources

Understanding the materiality of writing from multiple sources

“…Much less effort in the field has been given over to explicitly studying the hybrid kinds of reading-to-write tasks previously alluded to in an attempt to understand the mutually dependent relationships between reading of source texts, writing and constructing task representations (Spivey & King, 1989;Ackerman, 1990;Flower, 1990a, b;Stein, 1990a, b;McGinley, 1992). Again, it is the work of Flower (1990b) in this domain that more completely develops the theoretical foundations of the domain.…”

Investigating the Processes of Reading-to-Assess among Dutch Legislators

“…At the same time, we need to study the way strategic choices of readers are influenced by text that is read. Another application area for our approach lies in investigating the degree of integration of the different activities constituting reading-to-write processes (Kennedy, 1985;McGinley, 1992;Spivey & King, 1989). For instance, it is an important question whether the points of interests and reader issues emerging during the reading stage of these processes correspond with the topics around which the subsequent writing process is organized.…”

Do Literature Review Skills Transfer from One Course to Another?

“…Given the wide latitude of individual differences in writing ability and development in cognitive complexity (McGinley, 1992), we initially used a within-subjects design. The scores of the PSYC 205 final drafts were compared to the same students' PSYC 305 literature review scores.…”

“…Another difficulty is that writing a literature review requires a number of sophisticated skills, both as a reader and as a writer (Kellogg & Raulerson, 2007;McGinley, 1992). Students must engage in all levels of Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive complexity, from knowledge, through comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis, to evaluation (Granello, 2001), all requiring practice and experience.…”