Berkenkotter:

Before you read:  My writing rituals. I have to write it on paper first. If I sit down at my computer and try to start typing nothing happens. I could stare at the word document all day. When I have paper and a pencil I feel like I can start anywhere and write anything. When on a computer it feels more finalized paper and pencil seems more like the "writing stage".

Summary: Berkenkotter's Article Decisions and Revisions is about her study of Murrary and his writing process. Her idea was to have him record all of his mental thoughts aloud on a tape recorder while he when though his process. She took in over 120 hours of tapes as well as all of his drafts so that she could study the correlation between the two. Her audience is writers in general I think because she wants to make the point all writing processes are different, and its about finding what works for you to be the most productive.

Synthesis: I think this article relates to Kleine in that they both conduct experiments on their own to study the writing process of scholars. They both discover that you cant predict a persons process based on who they are or what they are writing about. Kleine focus is more on the researching aspect of the writing process and Berkenkotter's is more on the revision and editing. Both find that their studies have limitations

#1. Murray's writing process is different. He takes a lot of notes in a day book and then dictates to his wife, then reads the drafts, takes more notes and re drafts. His style is similar to mine in that I take notes when I am researching but way different in the way he dictates instead of writing it himself. Also I havent mastered the revising stage so I think he revises his drafts a lot more than I do.

#3. She learned that her ideas of revising could be changed after studying murray because he does it so much different than her.  Instead of making revision a separate step he combines it with planning into what is called reconceiving.  Reconceiving is to scan and rescan ones text from the perspetive of an external reader and to continue redrafting until all the style concerns have been resolved.

AE#1.  My own writing process could be a lot better. I get really flustered in the research stage that by the time I actually go to write my paper I really want to be done with it.  However, I think I do spend a good about of time revising, making sure the style of the paper is how I want it to be. Since I do more creative writing in my free time, styling a paper is more important to me. But by focusing more on style then I forget to edit and commonly make little mistakes that I shouldn't make

MM:  I learned that not everyones revision styles are the same, I think I can use that in my own writing by using the Reconceiving idea. to look at my draft over and over until all of the little problems are solved and make it the best work stylistically and edited.

Thoughts:
I thought that Her study was interesting. But even more interesting was Murrary's process itself. I think it was interesting that he includes planning and revising together. Also that he spends so much time evaluating the drafts over and over and over. I definitely think using some of his ideas could be beneficial in my own writing