Cognitive Strategies That Underlie the Reading and Writing
Process (page 4) Researchers agree that reading and writing are
both complex acts of critical thinking. For example, La Berge
and Samuels (1974) note that reading is probably one of the most
complex skills in the repertoire of the average adult. Flower
and Hayes (1981b) identify writing as "among the most complex of
all human mental activities". Underlying these mental activities
are powerful cognitive strategies that are fundamental to the
construction of meaning. This is the core of the reading/writing
connection. Experienced readers and writers select and implement
appropriate strategies and monitor and regulate their use in
order to construct and refine meaning. Let's look at the
strategies that underlie the reading and writing process.Reading
and writing are not sequential stage processes in which meaning
making progresses in a relatively predictable order. Remember
that experienced readers and writers go back in order to go
forward and that they