Knowledge Construction in Writing

 

Knowledge Construction in Writing

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 from

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·       Purpose: To provide a guide of how to move from knowledge telling to knowledge transformation

·       Thesis statement: Academic writers seek to transform knowledge by means of multiple sources.

·       Audience: Teachers of a post-graduate course.

I.                Abstract

II.              Introduction

III.            Related work and theoretical model

A.          Knowledge telling versus knowledge transformation

1.       Bereiter and Scardamalia’s (1987) model

2.       Bloom’s taxonomy

IV.            Method

A. Corpus and writing tasks

1.        Analyzing 40 argumentative essays

a.        Assigning a 1500-2000-word argumentative essay

B.      Hand coding – Codebook

1.     Coding sentences for argumentation

a.   Argument

b.   Evidence

c.   Counterargument

d.   Rebuttal

e.   Not applicable

C.         Hand coding – Interrater agreement

1.   Training together

2.   Coding independently

3.   Calculating reliability

D.        Extracting linguistic indices for sentences coded in writing mode scheme

1.       Modelling linguistic indices

a.       Anaphoric devices

b.       Semantic overlap

c.       Rhetorical connectives

V.              References

VI.            Appendix

A.      Sample codes sentences