Modelling Written Communication

Deirdre Pratt

ISBN 10: 9048198429 / ISBN 13: 9789048198429

Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Modelling Written Communication
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9048198429
• ISBN-13: 9789048198429
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

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.