Pratt Modelling Written Communication
2011
ISBN: 978-90-481-9843-6
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
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A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences
E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 226 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Methodos Series
ISBN: 978-90-481-9843-6
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book offers an alternative view to current postmodern approaches to composition. It takes a critical realist stance to arrive at the “essence” of written communication with the aim of informing a practical application: a computerised writing tutor. Following Robert Franck’s seminal work on modelling, a theoretical model of writing was first formulated, consisting of an architecture of functions which constitute the prerequisites for effective communication. Next, an applied model - a composing algorithm with an input option - was developed, showing composing to be a systemic social process with intra- and extra-systemic variation. The algorithm provided the design template for a writing tutor program which models for the learner both the systemic and the socially situated nature of writing. This book establishes composing as a communicative interaction, and shows the essential dynamism of writing, while offering an exemplar of a systems approach to modelling in the social sciences.
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Preface, Glossary, Introduction, Chapter 1: Review of Composition Software, Chapter 2: Critical Realism, Chapter 3: The Modelling Process, Chapter 4: The User's Model of Composing, Chapter 5: Testing out the User's Model, Chapter 6: The Theoretical Model of Composing, Chapter 7: The Explanatory Force of the Models, Chapter 8: The Writing Tutor Program, Conclusion, Index, Bibiography
