The essays in this book address various cognitive and emotional dimensions of disrupted composing and describe some of the situational variables that can contribute to it. The titles and authors are as follows: "Blocking and the Young Writer" (Donald H. Graves); "Emotional Scenarios in the Writing Process: An Examination of Young Writers' Affective Experiences" (Reed Larson); "Writing Apprehension" (John A. Daly); "An Apprehensive Writer Composes" (Cynthia L. Selfe); "Problems with Monitor Use in Second Language Composing" (Stan Jones); "Anxious Writers in Context: Graduate School and Beyond" (Lynn Z. Bloom); "Inventing the University" (David Bartholomae); "Diagnosing Writing-Process Problems: A Pedagogical Application of Speaking-Aloud Protocol Analysis" (Muriel Harris);"Psychotherapies for Writing Blocks" (Robert Boice); "The Essential Delay: When Writer's Block Isn't" (Donald M. Murray) and "Complexity, Rigor, Evolving Method, and the Puzzle of Writer's Block: Thoughts on Composing-Process Research" (Mike Rose). Name and subject indexes are included. (EL)