ABSTRACT
Much from cognitive psychology’s theory of problem solving has been applied to the composing process. One of the foremost researchers/theorists in the area of writing as a problem-solving process is Linda Flower who, through her writing text entitled Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing (1985), segments writing stages into problem-solving processes. Flower’s approach to viewing writing as an attempt to solve a rhetorical problem is an extension of the three-stage approach to attempting and completing a writing task. To put Flower’s interpretation in its historical context, a look at the theory preceding hers may be helpful.
