Bj. Zimmerman et R. Risemberg, CAVEATS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT SELF-REGULATION OF WRITING - A SOCIAL COGNITIVE REJOINDER, Contemporary educational psychology, 22(1), 1997, pp. 115-122
In their commentary, Graham and Harris (in press) raise a number of in
teresting caveats regarding the self-regulation of writing and make im
portant recommendations regarding future instructional research on the
topic. In this rejoinder, we respond to their caveats and recommendat
ions by providing further explanation, identifying areas of agreement,
and in some cases, offering alternative interpretations. We caution t
hat low levels of self-regulation by some writers can still be highly
predictive of writing outcomes, and thus its role should be judged on
the basis of the latter rather than the former. Triadic social context
ual conceptions of writing self-regulation avoid many interpretive pro
blems of cognitive processing accounts and include variables that can
explain how writing is motivated and how writers' personal environment
and behavior are orchestrated and managed. (C) 1997 Academic Press.