Modelling Written Communication: A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences
Author:   Deirdre Pratt
Publisher:   Springer
Volume:   8
ISBN:  

9789048198429


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   20 January 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Modelling Written Communication: A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences


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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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Author:   Deirdre Pratt
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.593kg
ISBN:  

9789048198429


ISBN 10:   9048198429
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   20 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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