But in the context of this study, it seems that the differences observed in the two writers' fluency and pausing patterns may also be because of their reading-into-writing strategies (or inappropriate use of these strategies).
Eight measures were used to indicate writers' fluency including total task time, total number of characters (process and product), product/process ratio (based on the number of characters), total number of words (process and product) and number of words per minute (process and product) (see Table 6).
As a consequence the chanting believers of the NME could not bear to miss a single issue; the torrential fluency of its writers left almost no space between words, and the NME became a culture in itself, whereas Melody Maker or Sounds just didn't.
Years ago, he'd recorded this wisdom in a book, now out of print, which a handful of fans discussed in reverent tones, but with a title that seemed like a deliberate bid for obscurity: How Writers Journey To Comfort And Fluency.
It is reported in the literature that skilled writers have a higher writing fluency than unskilled writers as most of the lower-level writing processes have become automatic for skilled writers (Field, 2004; Kellogg, 1996).
The findings also reveal that choosing suitable task-based implementational conditions can help L2 writers improve the complexity, accuracy, fluency, and lexical variety of their textual products.
To Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker writer, he held forth with uncanny fluency on "the origins of our modern world view, and its curious reliance on specialization and ever-narrower slices of the world around us into categories".
"However, Maggie shone as a truly accomplished writer whose effortless prose had great fluency and beauty," she said.
Graham also noted the writer's deep involvement and apparent fluency in the technical language and obscure issues arising in Classical Chinese theories of language which he then only beginning to study.
If I think of a writer whose work I admire for its fluency, I want to resist the temptation to assume it's easier for her to get there than it would be for me.
This is in line with previous research that suggests that the high demand of integrated tasks results in lower fluency and longer pauses in most writers' text production, especially those who do not have a good schema for constructing discourse from sources (Severinson Eklundh & Kollberg 2003).
