{"product_id":"the-construction-of-negotiated-meaning-a-social-cognitive-theory-of-writing-9780809319015","title":"The Construction of Negotiated Meaning: A Social Cognitive Theory of Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on five years of close observation of students  writing and collaborative planningthe practice in which student writers take the roles of planner and supporter to help each other develop a more rhetorically sophisticated writing planforemost cognitive composition researcher Linda Flower redefines writing in terms of an interactive social and cognitive process and proposes a convincing and compelling theory of the construction of negotiated meaning. Flower seeks to describe how writers construct meaning. Supported by the emerging body of social and cognitive research in rhetoric  education  and psychology  she portrays meaning making as a literate act and a constructive process. She challenges traditional definitions of literacy  adding to that concept the elements of social literate practices and personal literate acts. In Flowers view  this social cognitive process is a source of tension and conflict among the multiple forces that shape meaning: the social and cultural context  the demands of discourse  and the writers own goals and knowledge. Flower outlines a generative theory of conflict. With this conflict central to her theory of the construction of negotiated meaning  she examines negotiation as an alternative to the metaphors of reproduction and conversation. It is through negotiation  Flower argues  that social expectations  discourse conventions  and the writers personal goals and knowledge become inner voices. The tension among these forces often creates the hidden logic behind student writing. In response to these conflicting voices  writers sometimes rise to the active negotiation of meaning  creating meaning in the interplay of alternatives  opportunities  and constraints.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647268773941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0809319012","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780809319015.jpg?v=1781691256","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-construction-of-negotiated-meaning-a-social-cognitive-theory-of-writing-9780809319015","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}