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Modelling Written Communication

A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-94-007-3506-4
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungstermin: 25.02.2013
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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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  • Artikelnummer: 9789400735064
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-94-007-3506-4
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Erscheinungstermin: 25.02.2013
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2013
  • Serie: Methodos Series
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 388 g
  • Seiten: 226
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 14 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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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