This study investigated whether task complexity influences second language (L2) writers'
fluency, pausing, and revision behaviors and the cognitive processes underlying these …

Keystroke logging has become instrumental in identifying writing strategies and
understanding cognitive processes. Recent technological advances have refined logging …

Research into discourse synthesis examines the ways in which writers make use of, and
transform, multiple other texts in writing their own. It is intertextual research that has blurred …

Research on adult writers has shown that writing proceeds through bursts of transcription
activity interspersed by long pauses. Yet few studies have examined how these writing …

This study investigated the cognitive processes underlying pauses at different textual
locations (eg, within/between words) and various levels of revision (eg, below word/clause) …

This study compares a problem-solving account of discovery through writing, which
attributes discovery to strategic rhetorical planning and assumes discovery is associated …

When responding to a writing task, writers spend a significant amount of their time not
writing. These periods of physical inactivity, or pauses, during writing provide observable …

This special issue is devoted to describing and evaluating new methods for analyzing online
writing processes in a second language (L2). As all the contributors have stated, the aim is …

This study examined the extent to which L2 writers with varied working memory display
differential pausing and revision behaviors at different periods during writing. The …

Keystroke logging provides a detailed record of the process of writing as it unfolds in time.
However, by themselves, the measures it provides—pauses, bursts and revisions—do not …