ANY EFFORT to influence the quality of student writing must draw on an understanding of why students write as they do. When it comes to writing in response to texts-to analyzing works of fiction or non-fiction-it would seem that a pedagogic model designed to influence the student's output must first come to grips with the way in which the text is read and how the information is processed by the student prior to the act of writing itself.

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