Three Perspectives on Writing. Reading Education Report No. 41 [electronic resource] / Bertram Bruce and Others.

The process of writing is explored from three perspectives in this paper. In the first part of the paper writing is viewed as a communicative act with four principles that form tacit objectives in any communicative act: comprehensibility, enticingness, persuasiveness, and memorability. The second pa...

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Main Author: Bruce, Bertram C.
Corporate Authors: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983.
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