ABSTRACT
Similar to reading, writing strategies described in the research literature can help improve writing performance as well as being somewhat useful in other domains as well. To organize the various strategies that people use while they write, numerous models of writing have broken the process down into smaller sub-processes. Two such models that have had a major influence in research on writing strategies are Flower and Hayes's Cognitive Process Model and Graham and Harris's POW model. During these three stages: pre-writing, writing, and re-writing, larger metacognitive and self-regulatory strategies that guide the domain-specific writing strategies that follow, as well any domain-general strategies, may be employed. Some of these monitoring strategies are very specific to the act of writing. Examples of these writing-specific monitoring behaviors are monitoring the meaning of written words and monitoring text organization. Revision strategies aimed at improving the clarity of writing have been a bit more nebulous to identify in the literature.
