The Science Behind Writing for Knowledge Transforming (outline).

 

Outline of the article: Chang, D., Marzouj, Z., Rakovi, M., & Winne, P. (2019). Towards knowledge transformation in writing argumentative essays from multiple sources: A methodological approach. Companion Proceedings of 9^th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 19). At: Tempe, AZ, USA. Volume: 2019. Retrieved fromhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/333680138_Towards_knowledge_transforming_in_writing_argumentative_essays_from_multiple_sources_A_methodological_approach 

 

●       Purpose: To provide a methodological approach for the development of knowledge- transforming (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1987) [VP1] writing.

●       Thesis statement: A computational tool deviced out of writing analytics algorithms may help writers to move towards knowledge- transforming writing.

●       Audience: teachers,[VP2]  writing experts, linguists.

1. INTRODUCTION

A.    Establishing degrees of relation between the rhetorical and content problem space when argumenting.

B.     Differentiating knowledge-telling and knowledge-transforming.

C.     Presenting the hypothesis and thesis statement.

D.    Describing the aims of the study.

2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A.    Explaining writing models

B.     Explaining Bloom’s Taxonomy

C.     Drawing a parallel between Bloom’s taxonomy and the writing models.

1.      Devising a sentence classifying framework. 

3. METHOD & CONCLUSIONS

A.    Gathering information.

1.      Describing the corpus and writing task.

B.     Coding and categorizing sentences extracted from the tasks.

1.      Coding.

2.      Calculating reliability.

C.     Analysing data in light of theoretical framework.

1.      High accessibility vs. low accessibility anaphoric devices.

2.      Semantic overlap.

3.      Connectors.

4. REFERENCES
5. APPENDIX

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