Toward a Composing Model of Reading—Tierney, R. J. & Pearson, P. D. (1983)

This is the first published appearance of what came to be called our composing model of reading in which we made the argument that readers, like writers, engaged in an original act of “composing” a text for an inner reader and, in the process, made all of the inferences necessary to create a considerate and complete situation model of the meaning of the text. It has been our most reprinted co-authored article.