Modelling Written Communication: A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences

di Deirdre Pratt (Autore)

Springer, 2013

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.

• Autore: Deirdre Pratt
• Editore: Springer
• Collana: Methodos Series
• Anno: 2013
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 226 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9789400735064

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