Linda Flower

Linda Flower is professor emerita at Carnegie Mellon. Her cognitive-process research reframed writing as problem-solving rather than linear transcription, and her later work on community literacy turned that frame outward.

¶Core ideas

• Cognitive process model: writing as recursive planning, translating, reviewing — not stages
• Reader-based prose: revising writer-based drafts to meet reader needs
• Community literacy: writing as cross-difference deliberation in real publics

¶Key works

• Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing (1981)
• The Construction of Negotiated Meaning (1994)
• Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement (2008)