Table of Contents

PLAN OF THE BOOK
THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNICATION
A "Science" of Composition?
Literacy: Critique of a Crisis
Evaluation and Grading
Text and Discourse as Events
SCIENTIFIC PRECURSORS
Structuralism and Linguistics
Physicalism and Behaviorism, Mentalism and Transformational Grammar
THE PROCEDURAL APPROACH
Designing a Model
The Phases of Text Production
The Resources of Text Processing
THE LINEARITY OF TEXT PRODUCTION
Temporality versus Spatiality
Seven Principles of Linearity
Linearity and the Motives for Punctuating
WRITING VS. SPELLING, GRAMMAR, AND SPEECH
Spelling: Rules, Regularities, or Randomness?
Grammar Made Operational
Speaking versus Writing
STYLE, STAGES, AND STEPS TOWARD PROGRESS
Style
The Stages of Discourse
Theory and Practice: A Common Cause
References
Abbreviations
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Author