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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