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.
Deirdre Pratt
Modelling Written Communication
A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences
Modelling Written Communication
A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 226 ● ISBN 9789048198436 ● Dateigröße 4.5 MB ● Verlag Springer Netherland ● Ort Dordrecht ● Land NL ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2221525 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM