Deirdre Pratt

Modelling Written Communication

A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Methodos Series 8
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-007-3506-4
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9789400735064
• ISBN-10: 9400735065
• Artikelnr.: 37204025

Inhaltsangabe

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.