Preface -- 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 -- Bibliography
Summary
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 to inform a practical application: a computerised writing tutor. Based on Robert Franck's seminal work on modelling, a theoretical model of writing has been formulated offering an architecture of functions that 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index
