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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"Argumentative"”.
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Argumentative Learning with Intelligent Agents
… the high dependency on qualified arguing peers, argumentative learning has only had limited applications in school contexts to date. Intelligent agents have been proposed as virtual peers in recent research and they exhibit many benefits for learning. Argumentation support systems have also been …
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Analyzing discourse competence in argumentative essays
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Dialogical dynamics and argumentative structures in dispute mediation discourse
… theoretical knowledge of the dialogical and argumentative activity in mediation in order to deliver practical applications to support mediation training.<br/><br/>To achieve this goal, this work relies on argumentation theory applied to discourse studies and computational models, namely …
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Peer Interaction, Cognition And Argumentative Writing (Key Stage 2 Children)
Argumentative writing, which has become a National Curriculum requirement, is recognised to be a cognitively taxing undertaking at Key Stage 2 This dissertation describes an experiment using a multiple research approach to investigate 10-year-olds in peer groups of three, interacting in preparation …
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Analysis of newspaper editorials: A study of argumentative text structure
… been made to characterize types of texts such as argumentative, expository, and narrative on the basis of their structural and linguistic features. This study explores the notion of the text type labeled argumentative. Previous studies have attempted to characterize argumentative texts on the …
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An Analysis of the Argumentative Writing Skills of Academically Underprepared College Students
… Using an archival data set, a sample of argumentative essays written by community college developmental (remedial) education students was analyzed. Scoring procedures for argumentation development were implemented based on a framework developed by Ferretti, Lewis, and Andrews-Weckerly …
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Using Discourse to Improve the Quality of Student Talk and Historical Argumentative Writing
… of the synthesis was to determine the impact of argumentative discourse on students’ learning outcomes and to understand the instructional components teachers use when holding discourse. Asterhan & Schwarz’s (2016) Argumentation for Learning (AFL) framework guided the research synthesis and the …
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Perceptions of Argumentative Discourse Among Freshmen College Students, Science Teachers and Practicing Scientists
"The study aimed to (a) elucidate college Freshmen science students, secondary science teachers, and practicing scientists' perceptions of scientific arguments and how these perceptions compare to Toulmin's (1958) formal analytical frameworks, which is often used to analyze arguments in the science …
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Distributed Argumentative Activity: Redefining Arguments and Their Re -Mediation From a Sociohistoric Perspective
… In sum, I argue that the notion of distributed argumentative activity offers a pedagogically as well as theoretically rich account of how people continually redefine argument/argumentation and alter the conditions under which their arguments may be deemed successful in school, disciplinary, and …
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Cultural diversity and indigenous peoples' land claims: argumentative dynamics and jurisprudential approach in the Americas
… and III), the focus is on the assessment of the argumentative logic behind the multiculturalist proposal for equally divided societies, among equally positioned ethno-cultural groups. A critical and analytical review of the multiculturalist argumentative constructions shows that its justification …
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Argumentative essays written by native speakers of Chinese and English: A study in contrastive rhetoric
… of writing required at American universities, argumentative writing may be the most important and the most difficult to master. Contrastive rhetoricians have claimed its mastery can be especially difficult for international students, who bring to English rhetorical conventions that do not meet …
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The Influence of Group Discussions and Explicit Instruction on the Acquisition and Transfer of Argumentative Knowledge
… a persuasive composition, and a recall of an argumentative text. The findings reveal the complexity of learning and transfer in the domain of argumentation. Students who engaged in discussions with or without explicit instruction provided well-articulated responses to the interview questions, …
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Adaptation of the EPT specification to a Ukrainian argumentative writing test within the contrastive rhetoric approach
… Test (EPT) Specification (spec) to the Ukrainian argumentative writing test taken by Ukrainian high-school graduates as a part of the obligatory Unified State Examination (USE) within the contrastive rhetoric approach. Never before has any argumentative writing test spec been adapted with a …
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Developing University Students’ Argumentative Discourse: An Ill-Structured Issue Pertaining To Black African Immigrants And African Americans
… can be used to develop university students’ argumentative discourse. Article Three is a case study that documented two first-year university students’ experiences in the learning of argument-counterargument integration in persuasive essay writing. Learning the criteria instruction for …
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Children's Behaviors and Emotions in Small -Group Argumentative Discussion: Explore the Influence of Big Five Personality Factors
The assessment and structure of personality traits and small group learning during classroom discussions are both research fields that have undergone fast development in the past few decades. However, very few studies have investigated the relationship between individual personality characteristics …
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Stakeholder Engagement and Conflicting Discourses in Urban Policy in the Two Rivers Urban Park, Cape Town: An Argumentative Discourse Analysis
… Park (TRUP) in Cape Town, this research applies argumentative discourse analysis to capture and analyse multiple dimensions of stakeholder contributions. Arguments, and other linguistic features, were linked to themes distilled from the data. Associating and matching these themes to stakeholder …
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What makes an argument effective? Triangulating task characteristics, essay performances, and rating processes in an L2 integrated argumentative writing test
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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La portée argumentative du récit de la plainte pour harcèlement psychologique et ses impacts sur l’interrelation entre le plaignant et l’enquêteur
… permet de soutenir notre thèse sur la portée argumentative du récit de la plainte et de son impact sur l’entrevue. Trois stratégies argumentatives communes aux entrevues se révèlent : on observe la prudence de l’enquêteur, le souci du plaignant de présenter un ethos favorable et l’appel à …
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