This was done to explicate the two writers' reading-into-writing processes in relation to graphic time-based analysis of the overall text production patterns, quantitative measures of writing fluency and pauses, and reading-into-writing sub-processes (i.e. task representation, transforming ideas from sources and revisions).
Quantitative measures of writing fluency, grammatical complexity, and lexical complexity are statistically compared among five pre-task planning conditions.
My plan was to become a crack journalist in the daytime, building my worldly experience and gaining fluency through the practice of writing to meet deadlines.
Table 6 Measures of writing fluency Measure Ben Mary Total Task Time (in minutes) 31.40 58.13 Total number of characters (Process) 2918 3049 Total number of characters (Product) 2509 1951 Product/Process ratio 0.86 0.64 Total number of words (Process) 487 349 Total number of words (Product) 421 330 Words per minute (Process) 15.50 6.01 Words per minute (Product) 13.41 5.68.
For writing fluency, participants were told to write as many Chinese characters as they could for radicals of "扌" and "亻" in a minute, respectively, and the average score was considered to be the performance of writing fluency.
It could be private tutoring, test prep, writing center sort of stuff, continuing education, whatever, but people who can help others gain a fluency and mastery of written communication are always in demand somewhere.
The neuropsychological performance was indexed by the combined Z-score of the verbal fluency and writing fluency, digit symbol, forward and backward of digit span, TMT A and B, similarities, and logic memory.
Of course, Roth's fluency in writing his recent books could not have happened without the many years of labor, any more than Parker could play his improvisations without thousands of hours practicing chord changes.
However, a paucity of literature exists regarding the influences of planning time conditions on complexity, accuracy and fluency in writing tasks, particularly in an EFL context.
Doug Hesse, professor and executive director of the writing program at Denver notes that gaining fluency in writing for non-natives may take five to ten years.
