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Pauses, routines, and registers in composing a text

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This article argues that features of the writing process have to be analysed in relation to describable linguistic structures of the written text. Activities before writing, distributions of writing pauses, and the structure of think-aloud-protocols indicate that planning processes are determined by the writers knowledge of the grammatical system. The role of syntactical structures, text-patterns (registers) and the auditive component of pre-texts is analysed.

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This research was supported by a grant from the D.F.G. (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Nr. Ke 77/33-1/2.

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Keseling, G., Wrobel, A. Pauses, routines, and registers in composing a text. Eur J Psychol Educ 6, 127–134 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03191931

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