Summary:
In "Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer" Carol Berkenkotter talks about the writing process and what goes on in the mind of a writer. She does a study with Donald M. Murray and we learn more about that in "Response of a Laboratory Rat- or, Being Protocoled. We learn a lot about the many things that Murray thinks about and what he does when he is writing that maybe he didn't even know about himself.
1) I think that Murphy and I share a lot of the same processes of writing especially when it comes to the amount of time we spend planning out our writing before we actually write it. I don't worry about the audience as much as he said he did.
2) I think his audience is more professional than mine is. My writing is definitely a lot more easy to read and less professional. I don't think about my audience near as much as he does.
3) I think it changed her understanding because like it says on page 227 "it shed new light on the great and small decisions and revisions that come from planning" . In other words Murray spent a lot more time on the planning process then she thought he would.
1) I spend a lot of my writing time on the planning process. Most of my writing I do in my head before I even sit down to write. I honestly think that I am just an average writer and even though I did get pretty good grades on my papers, most of the teachers grading it were pretty easy.
Meta Moment: One thing I learned is that I need to be more aware of how I write and the process I go through and this might help me become a stronger writer.
Review: Overall I think that these were very interesting articles and that I learned a lot about the way I write.
I agree with what you said about not relating to the audience as much. I too, have troubles sometimes relating to the audience I am writing for. You did a good job summing up the article, I put something very similar to your response. Nice job!
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