College Composition and Communication Dec 2016

What Writers Do: Behaviors, Behaviorism, and Writing Studies

Chris W. Gallagher

Abstract

This article offers a fuller account than we currently have of the complex, uneasy relationship between behaviorism and writing studies in order both to complicate our disciplinary historiography and to encourage writing scholars, teachers, and program administrators to articulate productive and unproductive understandings of writing behaviors.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2016-12-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201628880
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