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

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

von: Deirdre Pratt

Springer-Verlag, 2011

ISBN: 9789048198436 , 226 Seiten

Format: PDF

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


 

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.