Modelling Written Communication - A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences (Hardcover, Edition.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Methodos Series, 8
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Deirdre Pratt
Dimensions:	241 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	225
Edition:	Edition.
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-9842-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Writing skills Promotions
LSN:	90-481-9842-9
Barcode:	9789048198429

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