Similarities and differences between the revising processes of native Spanish and English writers

The aim of the investigation is to portray a composite picture of the native and non-native expert and novice writers’ composing and revising processes as they wrote an argumentative essay in English. Analyses of the experienced and novice writers’ revision processes served to answer four main questions posed at the beginning of the experimental study: 1. When did revisions occur during the composing process? 2. Were there any similarities and differences in the categories of revision the subjects employed? 3. And in the techniques the subjects employed? and 4. And in the purposes of the subjects’ revisions? These questions were also posed to compare the native and non-native expert writers and the native and non-native novice writers.