Writing: Thinking and Learning with the Aid of Texts
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The claim has often been made that it is through writing, in particular, that we exploit the full potential of literacy, using it, as Bruner put it, as a technology for the empowerment of mind. Because of the need to make the meaning of our text clear and explicit for an audience who will have no other access to our thinking, we have a strong incentive to try to become clear for ourselves about what it is we think. And because we are released from the pressure to get it right first time, which is both the spur and the limitation to thinking in the context of face-to-face interaction, we can adopt a more reflective and reflexive stance, rethinking and rewriting ourselves towards an increased state of understanding. Writing, it has been argued, can thus provide a particularly effective opportunity for learning.
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