Introduction

Chapter 1 An Overview of the Writing Process

Traditional Views of the Writing Process

Current Views of the Writing Process

Shifting Views on L2 Writing Instruction

Chapter 2 Postmodernism and Process Writing

Postmodernism

Concept of Process and Subject

The Postmodern Notion of the ‘Other’

Sense of Discontinuity

Decentralization

Anti-Universalism

Chapter 3 The Yin-Yang Paradigm

Why the Yin-Yang Paradigm？

Origin of the Yin-Yang Conception

Elaboration and Development of the Yin-Yang Concept

East West Convergence in Dialectics

Characteristics of the Yin-Yang Categories

Chapter 4 The Interactionist and Reflective Approach

Characteristics of the Self

Self as Social

Two Phases of the Self： the ‘I’ and the ‘Me’

The Genesis and Development of the Self

Chapter 5 The Interplay of Language and Thought

Language and Thought as a Reciprocal Relationship

Social Origins of Higher Mental Functions

Two Phases： Interpsychological and Intrapsychological

Vygotsky’s Conception of Egocentric Speech

“The Zone of Proximal Development”

The Dialogical Experience of M.Bakhtin

Chapter 6 A Re-examination of the Process

Theories of Audience Analysis

The ‘Other’ as an Indispensable Partner

Q.D.Leavis’s Research and Other ‘Literary Indebtedness’

The “Re-surfacing” of Interpersonal Interaction

Conclusion

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