2. Quiz question #1
Draw your own writing process map
For Thursday: Read Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First
Drafts” (WAW 301-304) and Stephen King’s
“What Writing Is” (WAW 305-307).
Post to FB or bring to class: Pick at least one
quote from either text that really relates to your
own writing process. Explain why you connected
with this quote.

3. Tony’s writing behaviors
• Recursiveness (pg. 207)
• Editing (pg. 208)
• Rule Confusion (pg. 208)
• Egocentricity (pg. 209)

4. Recursiveness
“Students wrote by shuttling from the sense of
what they wanted to say forward to the words
on the page and back from the words on the
page to their intended meaning” (207).

5. Editing
“While editing, the students were concerned
with a variety of items: the lexicon
(spelling, word choice, and context of words);
the syntax (grammar, punctuation, and
sentence structure); and the discourse as a
whole (organization, coherence, audience)”
(209).

6. Rule Confusion
“The simple set of editing rules at their
disposal was often inappropriate for the types
of complicated structures they produced. As a
result, they misapplied what they knew and
either created a hypercorrection or impaired
the meaning they had originally intended to
clarify” (208).

7. Egocentricity
“While they occasionally indicated a concern for
their readers, they more often took the
reader’s understanding of the text for granted.
They did not see the necessity of making their
referents explicit, of making the connections
among their ideas apparent, of carefully and
explicitly relating one phenomenon to
another, or of placing narratives or
generalizations within an orienting,
conceptual framework” (209).

8. Perl’s Code ( pg. 196)
{PL}: Planning
{C}: Commenting
{I}: Interpreting
{A}: Assessing
{Q}: Questioning
{RE}: Repeating
{E}: Editing

9. Looking for patterns
Using the sample transcript, look for patterns
in the student’s writing process. Start with
the code we have, and then add to it if you
need to.

11. Quiz question #2
What advice would you give to this
student, based on what you learned from
coding his transcript?

12. Quiz
• How does your writing process relate to
Tony’s?
• Is your writing process recursive? How so, or
not?
• How does Tony experience “rule confusion?”
• What aspect of Tony’s writing process did you
find most interesting?