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Download full textBeers, Susan E. – 1984
The set of goals and plans that a writer might select to accomplish a given piece of writing is guided by the writer's conception of knowledge. In terms of cognitive theory, conceptions of knowledge may be viewed as epistemological schemata--structured clusters of knowledge about the nature of knowledge itself. William Perry's scheme of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Developmental Stages, Epistemology
