Flower and Hayes

The Flowers and Hayes article talks about the cognitive process theory and how it has four main points: writing process is understood the best when thought of as a set of distivtive thinking processes which takes place during the act of composing; hierarchical organization is a part of the writing process; composing is a process in which the writer is achieving their own goal; there are two ways which writers create their own goals: generate high-level and supporting goals, changing their goals based on what they have learned. During the cognitive process, Flower and Hayes believe that authors usually tend to stay away from the usual writing stages.
Flower and Hayes also talk about the act of writing and its three major parts: the task environment, the writer’s long term memory, and the writing process. First, the task environment is described as everything that is outside of the writers ability. The second element is the writer’s long term memory where a writer stores a lot of knowledge of their audience and writing ideas. Third and lastly is the process of planning, translating, and reviewing. This stage is when the writers produce representations of what they will write about; more or less like the brainstorming process. Translating comes second and is when the writer puts their ideas into words and lastly, the reviewing is the final writing process when a writer reads and rereads his work, evaluates, and revises.
This article seemed like something I had learned a long time ago and also describes my writing process. Because of this, I feel as though the article was a lot easier for me to understand than most other articles we have read in the past. Flower and Hayes reiterated the process of composing to writers everywhere.