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“you Don’t Know What It Is,” Wrote Flau­bert, “to Stay A Whole Day With Your Head In Your Hands Trying To Squeeze Your Un­fortunate Brain So As To Find A Word.” Writer’s Block Is More Than A Mere Matter Of Discomfort And Missed Dead­lines; Sustained Experiences Of Writer’s Block May Influence Career Choices. Writers In The Business World, Profes­sional Writers, And Students All Have Known This Most Common And Least Studied Dysfunction Of The Composition Process. Rose, However, Sees It As A Limitable Problem That Can Be Precisely Analyzed And Remedied Through Instruc­tion And Tutorial Programs.” Rose Defines Writer’s Block As “an In­ability To Begin Or Continue Writing For Reasons Other Than A Lack Of Skill Or Com­mitment,” Which Is Measured By “pas­sage Of Time With Limited Functional/ Productive Involvement In The Writing Task.” He Applies The Information Pro­cessing Models Of Cognitive Psychology To Reveal Dimensions Of The Problem Never Before Examined. In His Three-faceted Approach, Rose De­velops And Administers A Questionnaire To Identify Blockers And Nonblockers; Through Simulated Recall, He Selects And Examines Writers Experiencing Both High And Low Degrees Of Blocking; And

Author

Mike Rose

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809311415

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Psychology, Humanities