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100 1 _aPratt, Deirdre.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aModelling Written Communication
_h[electronic resource] :
_bA New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences /
_cby Deirdre Pratt.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2011.
300 _aXXVI, 226 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aMethodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ;
_v8
505 0 _aPreface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Review of Composition Software -- Chapter 2: Critical Realism -- Chapter 3: The Modelling Process -- Chapter 4: The User's Model of Composing -- Chapter 5: Testing out the User's Model -- Chapter 6: The Theoretical Model of Composing -- Chapter 7: The Explanatory Force of the Models -- Chapter 8: The Writing Tutor Program -- Conclusion -- Index -- Bibiography.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aInformation systems.
650 0 _aLiteracy.
650 0 _aSocial sciences
_xMethodology.
650 1 4 _aSocial Sciences.
650 2 4 _aMethodology of the Social Sciences.
650 2 4 _aLiteracy.
650 2 4 _aComputer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aMethodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ;
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9843-6
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