Overview
- Establishes composing as a type of communicative interaction
- Shows the essential dynamism of writing
- Offers models of writing to be used for research or composition courses
- Offers insights into the infinite variety and complexity of individual writing behaviour.
Part of the book series: Methodos Series (METH, volume 8)
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modelling Written Communication
Book Subtitle: A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences
Authors: Deirdre Pratt
Series Title: Methodos Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9843-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9842-9Published: 20 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3506-4Published: 25 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9843-6Published: 19 January 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-7750
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 226
Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Literacy, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities