Perl and Rose, although similar in their research analysis have really shown how different ones methodology can be and how it affects their overall work. In her essay The Composing Process of Unskilled College Writers Perl shows results of a study she did on students and their writing. Her overall goal was to examine three questions to help analyze how exactly a writer writes and their background of writing in school. She discusses the different strategies that are used by the different students, and exactly how the strategies help students become better writers. Perl came to realize that many students, when they write experience “…greater internalization of process than has ever before been suspected” (31). In Writer’s Block: The Cognitive Dimension, Mike Rose unfolds how apprehensiveness can lead to blocking and the essential role cognition plays in the writing process: planning strategies, rigid rules of composition, editing too early, and the many misleading assumptions people use in their writing. “Writer’s block, then, can be defined as an inability to begin or continue writing for reasons other than a lack of basic skill or commitment…but since blocking is a composing process dysfunction that is related to skill in complex, not simple, ways, some …show more content…
The writers that Rose analyzed that hardly experienced writer's block were following either fewer rules or rules that were not in use as frequently (Ruels that suggest rather than command). These writers seemed to have created their own rules: “If a rule conflicts with what is sensible or with experience, reject it” (397) The reader of roses research feels they are being directly talked about in certain points of the piece something Perl doesn't do. Rose also heavily refers to cognition in a epistemology