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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>S .I.G. Writing Conference 2006<BR>Proposal for a
symposium entitled <BR>“Explaining and improving revision skills in
writers”<BR></B>organised by <BR>Lucile Chanquoy (University of Nice-Sophia
Antipolis, France) and<BR>Isabelle Negro (University of Antilles-Guyane,
France)<BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><B> <BR>Aim of the
symposium:<BR></B>
Revision is conceived as one of the main writing process. It is generally
described by three sub-processes: 1) reading in order to define eventual
problems; 2) developing a strategy; 3) transforming the text, if necessary.
These activities are particularly high resource consuming (Kellogg, 1996) and
experience in writing is not sufficient to increase revising skills. Recently,
research has progressed in the conception of the revision process (for a
review, see Hayes, 2004). First, revision may intervene at any time of
the writing process, from the text to be written to the final draft (external
vs. internal text). Second, if most of the models limit the revision process
to the discovery of a dissonance between the desired text and actual written
text, (Hayes & Flower, 1980; Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1983), revision
may occur when the writer finds new links, new ideas for expressing what he or
she has previously thought or written (Hayes, 2004). The critical skills used
during the scanning of external or internal text are thus essential. Hayes
(2004) noticed that “current methods for teaching text evaluation skills are
unsuccessful” (p. 17). What has currently been offered for teaching beginning
writers to detect an error (spelling errors or deep incoherence) in the text?
How is it possible to help beginning or experienced writers to discover
opportunities for improving their text? Which processes are involved during
revision? How are evaluation, detection and correction skills activated? Since
writers are unable to modify from 25% (Hacker, Plum, Butterfield, Quathamer
& Heineken, 1994) to 42% (Bartlett, 1982) of the errors that they have
already detected, how is it possible to improve revision? Which methods are
used to analyse revision on the text being created and on the already
transcribed text? <BR>The purpose of this symposium is to investigate how
revision research may affect our understanding of the whole writing process,
and help education professionals to teach revision skills. <BR>If you would
like to submit a proposal for this symposium, please send an e-mail with your
title, abstract (350 words) and address (academic + e-mail) to Lucile Chanquoy
(<A href="mailto:lucile.chanquoy@unice.fr">lucile.chanquoy@unice.fr</A>)
before December, 31<SUP>st</SUP> (as the final deadline is January,
15<SUP>th</SUP> 2006). Thank you very much!<BR></DIV>
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