The Radical Outliner and the Radical Brainstormer: A Perspective on Composing Processes

Abstract

Nearly twenty years ago, when my husband and I were newly married and working as teaching assistants in the composition program at the University of Kansas, we discovered, to our surprise, that our initial fears of being too much alike were unfounded. Although we were both teaching freshmen the same literature-based course, about twice a week we would have a version of the following conversation (italics added in retrospect):

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