Review and Evaluation: for the Improvement of Academic Writing at College

Abstract

This paper analyzes the difficulties faced by amateur writers in the written composition process (particularly review and evaluation), and the strategies used by experts in order to overcome them; likewise, the contributions to the psycholinguistic model in writing production are presented and, finally, a number of activities are suggested that will make it possible to strengthen the writing composition processes inside the classroom. This kind of writing needs to synthesize the cognitive, metacognitive, social, linguistic, textual and contextual factors in order to promote in students the development of a productive writing of the different academic texts used at school