ABSTRACT
This chapter is a response to an intriguing problem. Imagine yourself faced with the following situation. A person has just arrived on the doorstep saying, “I've never written anything before; teach me how to write.” Suppose then that we happened to have a model of the composing process that said that in order to write, people must perform a number of mental operations: They must Plan, Generate knowledge, Translate it into speech, and Edit what they've written. These operations can draw on information stored in long-term memory and they go on within a Task Environment that includes both the task and a growing text. In other words we have a model very similar to the one proposed in Chapter 1 of this volume.
