ABSTRACT
In the rst edition of Concepts in Composition, Chapter 1 was titled “Process,” not “Processes,” and in composition scholarship, the term “process” is still widely used. A popular statement in early journal articles and textbooks was “writing is a process, not a product,” and today there is general agreement that an important goal for a writing course is to help students develop an e ective writing process. However, it is now also recognized that there is no one writing “process” that works for everyone, that writers use various processes at di erent times, depending on what sort of text they wish to write, and that reading and research are also processes. So-the term “process” really refers to many processes, an important idea for prospective writing teachers to understand.
