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  • 23 - How Do Novice and Skilled Writers Engage Working Memory?

  • from Part IV - First Language Processing
  • Edited by John W. Schwieter, Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language
    Published online:
    08 July 2022
    Print publication:
    21 July 2022, pp 504-526

  • Summary

    The high working memory demands of writing are now well documented across the development of writing as well as in expert writing. The limited capacity of working memory of beginning writers and their effortful untrained writing processes indeed constrain learning to write. In experienced writers, operations of the writing processes are more complex and therefore continue to heavily engage working memory. In this frame, this chapter describes the theoretical models of the writing processes that describe the role of working memory. It then reviews research that examined how writing and the writing processes engage working memory. It is shown that managing the planning, translating, and revising processes involve the executive and nonexecutive components of working memory for storing verbal and visual spatial information that is processed during writing.