Chapter 10 pointed out that people who are working on a writing assignment are operating on a "full-time cognitive overload." This phrase suggests that

a. people need to write down phrases as soon as they are created, to reduce this overload problem.
b. decision making is a central component of writing, so that writers can reject ideas that are not productive.
c. it's important to transfer ideas from working memory to long-term memory, prior to writing them down.
d. writers typically use all the components of working memory, as well as long-term memory.


Ans: d

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