Cognitive Psychology: Applying The Science of the Mind (4thEdition)
Chapter 10

Discussion Question:
What do you think is the most important factor incommunicating through your writing? Think of the comments you getfrom professors, or the problems you seem to have in writing. Dothey map onto any of the factors you've read about?

Here's an example of one of my classmateresponse....
I feel that with writing being such a common way of communicatingit is important to be as proficient as possible. To be able to doso it truly helps to understand the processes involved. Afterunderstanding the processes, you can come to utilize them withinyour writing to communicate effectively. For example, the wordskipping issue in reading is something that also affects mywriting. Word skipping is one of the biggest problems I have inreading and writing. Like stated in the textbook, short words suchas “an” and “the” are more likely to be skipped. When writingsometimes I will repeat short words without even realizing it. Whenproofreading my writing to uncover mistakes like that I will justskip right over them without even realizing it and the mistakeremains in my writing. One of my English teachers advised me toread through my writing backwards because this would ensure that Iread it word per word and would likely not skip over any words.This advice helped me with detecting repeated short words that Iusually skipped over.