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= Janet Emig = Janet A. Emig is an American scholar, professor, and writer. Emig is most well known for her various academic articles and books concerning the teaching of writing, as well as her important contributions to the development of the process theory of composition.

Career
Emig graduated from the University of Michigan, after which she was refused acceptance into the doctoral program for what she has stated was due to sexism. She began her career as a High School teacher, where she experimented with conferencing with her students, which would influence her in her later writing. before becoming involved in the National Council of Teachers of English. She then enrolled at Harvard and eventually took over the writing program after others involved left, but was unable to complete her dissertation, citing a lack of leadership. During this time she published several articles in academic journals, and in 1971 she published her most notable and influential work, Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders. She later went on to be a professor at Rutgers University. At this point, she continued to write about and further develop the process theory of composition and the prospects of women in academia in the 1980s, advocating for affirmative action in academia.

Process theory of composition
Emig was influential to the development of the process theory of composition in the field of composition studies, which advocates for a focus on the process of writing rather than the final product. She is credited with the academic popularization of the writing process in academic studies of composition. In her book, Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders, Emig broke down and explained the writing process, and in particular the ways that students in late high school produce writing. This description was late expanded into a clearly defined three step process (pre-writing writing, and re-writing), by Donald Murray in his article Teach Writing as a Process, Not Product.

Honors
In 2000, the National Council of Teachers of English named and Award in honor of Emig.

Notable Works

 * We Are Trying Conferences, The English Journal (1960)
 * Teaching a Modern Sonnet, The English Journal (1962)
 * The Poem as Puzzle, The English Journal (1963)
 * The Uses of the Unconscious in Composing, College Composition and Communication (1964)
 * On Teaching Composition: Some Hypotheses as Definitions, Research in the Teaching of English (1967)
 * The Origins of Rhetoric: A Developmental View, The School Review (1969)
 * The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders (1971)
 * Writing as a Mode of Learning, College Composition and Communication Vol. 28, No. 2 (1977)
 * The Web of Meaning: Essays on Writing, Teaching, Learning, and Thinking (1983)
 * The State of English Education and a Vision for Its Future: A Call to Arms, English Education (2006)