Richard E. Young’s scientific contributions

... Early theories of "incubation" posited periods of unconscious rumination about an upcoming or ongoing text. Lauer (2004), pointing back to the work of Young et al. (1970), explains the process of inquiry "as beginning with an awareness and formulation of a felt difficulty followed by an exploration of that unknown, then proceeding through a period of subconscious incubation to illumination and verification" (p. 9). ...

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Writing and Thinking: What Changes with Digital Technologies?

... Furthermore, the interplay between the conceptualizing axis and connecting axis underscores the urgency for a revised approach to arguing. This revision encompasses empathic-democratic methods of argumentation, as suggested by Rogers (1952;1967a-c) andYoung et al. (1970), and challenges the limitations of arguing schemes criticized by Andriessen & Baker (2022) for being «exclusively epistemic» (p. 442) and not fully aligning with democratic discourse objectives. ...

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Arguing for Global Citizenship: Mapping Deeper Learning in the Language-as-Discipline Classroom