A method for approaching essay writing with a critical mind

Outline of the article: Rakovic, M., Chang, D., Marzouk, Z., & H Winne, P. (March, 2019). Towards knowledge-transforming in writing argumentative essays from multiple sources: A methodological approach. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK19), USA. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication333680138_Towards_knowledge_transforming_in_writing_argumentative_essays_from_multiple_sources_A_methodological_approach

  • Purpose: To provide a logical structure of this proceeding in order to highlight the use of Bloom’s taxonomy in academic writing, relevant methods for coding sentences, and the linguistic properties evidenced in arguments at the sentence-level.

  • Audience: Teachers and researchers in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) field.

  • Thesis statement: The identification of linguistic properties in argumentative essays and the employment of Bloom’s taxonomy for writing analytics of students’ compositions can provide a methodological framework for scaffolding undergraduate pupils towards composing for knowledge-transformation.

  1. Abstract

  2. Introduction

  3. Related work and theoretical model

    1. Acknowledgement of previous model of differentiating composing for knowledge-telling against writing for knowledge-transforming

    2. Explanation of relevant applications of Bloom’s taxonomy for relating arguments to various cognitive processes.

  4. Method

    1. Corpus and writing task

      1. Description of the corpus of the study

      2. Specification of the requirements for the essay writing assignment involved

    2. Hand-coding – codebook

      1. Coding of sentences in terms of argumentation

      2. Coding of sentences in terms of writing mode

      3. Coding of sentences in terms of relationality

    3. Hand-coding – interrater agreement

      1. Collaborate coding

      2. Individual coding

      3. Reliability test

    4. Extracting linguistic indices for sentences coded in Writing mode scheme

      1. Anaphoric devices

      2. Semantic overlap

      3. Rhetorical connectives

    5. References

    6. Apendix

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