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The effects of prompts-based argumentation scaffolds on peer-led interactive argumentation
… study was to determine whether prompts-based argumentation scaffolds (PAS) would result in improvement of students' argumentation in a peer-led argumentation context. The study also examined the effects of PAS on students' reasoning performance and their feelings of group community. Thirty-two …
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Argumentation in an online mathematics course.
… been attempted to improve online discourse and argumentation is to request that students make use of formal argument models such as Toulmin (1958), and to compose their posts and responses to fit particular categories of argument structure. An example of such a study is Jeong and Joung (2007), …
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Argumentation Stance Polarity and Intensity Prediction and its Application for Argumentation Polarization Modeling and Diverse Social Connection Recommendation
<p>Cyber argumentation platforms implement theoretical argumentation structures that promote higher quality argumentation and allow for informative analysis of the discussions. Dr. Liu’s research group has designed and implemented a unique platform called the Intelligent Cyber Argumentation System …
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Partial Justice: Congressional Argumentation and Presidential Impeachment
This study examines how participants in the impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton argued whether each president warranted removal from office. Specifically, it establishes a four-part typology of impeachment arguments, and examines which of these arguments …
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Argumentation pragmatics, text analysis, and contrastive rhetoric
… and then present an alternative adapted from argumentation pragmatics (Ducrot et al., 1980) and the model of discourse structure proposed by Roulet et al. (1985). Ducrot's theory rests on the observation that utterances in sequence are describable as having one of two functions--that of being …
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An argumentation system that builds trusted trading partnerships
… trading activities in e-Commerce applications. Argumentation is a mode of interaction between agents that enables them to exchange information within messages in the form of arguments to explain their current position and future plans with the intention of increasing the chance of success in the …
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The Use of Evidence in Young Adolescents' Argumentation
… curriculum use evidence when engaging in argumentation. The experimental group was compared to groups who received either no such argument curriculum, or one year of an argument curriculum without focus on evidence. A total of 93 students participated in the study; at the end of the …
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Argumentation and artifacts for intelligent multi-agent systems
… software system is necessary and often hidden. Argumentation theory and logic make explicit non-monotonic information in order to enable automatic forms of reasoning under uncertainty. In human organization Distributed Cognition and Activity Theory explain how artifacts are fundamental in all …
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Argumentation und Beschlußfassung in Verhandlungen : eine gesprächsanalytisch-spieltheoretische Untersuchung
… zunächst Ausführungen zur Konzeptualisierung von Argumentation in Verhandlungen. In der Literatur herrscht weitgehend Konsens darüber, dass Argumente eine dreigliedrige Grundstruktur haben. Die drei Komponenten von Argumenten nennen wir "Annahme", "Regularität" und "Behauptung". Bereichsunabhängig …
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Losing ground : locational formulations in argumentation over New Travellers
This thesis is an exercise in discursive psychology. The body of discourse analysed concerns the defence of rural space against New Travellers. In contrast to previous sociological and human geographical work in this area, instead of newspaper articles and Parliamentary discourse, participants' …
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Measuring the Counter/Assumption Model's Effect on Argumentation Quality
… See the Reason, built upon a tree- structured argumentation model called the Counter/Assumption model. In the Counter/Assumption model, a topic is posted first, then under that topic, reasons for and against, and for each reason, counterarguments, and for any counterargu- ment, more …
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Adapting to western norms of academic argumentation and debate.
… academic acculturation into Western norms of argumentation, which is characterised by rigorous, `strong' critical thinking, polarised, linear logic, and `wrestling debate'. Instead, many of them opt for a `Middle Way', which synthesises those elements of Western academic norms that are …
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Richard Rorty's pragmatism : implications for argumentation theory.
… argues that American pragmatism and contemporary argumentation theory have much in common. Nevertheless the similarities have not been exploited. Difficulties arise, however, in specifying pragmatism. Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey--the major founders of pragmatism--differed …
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Argumentation and Understanding: A Study of Tibetan Religious Debate
This thesis investigates the question of how individuals interpret formal religious doctrines. It does so by examining the way Tibetan monastic students and teachers use traditional methods of debate of the dGe lugs pa sect to interpret Buddhist scriptures. The fieldwork for this study was done …
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Integrating ontologies and argumentation for decision-making in breast cancer
… of an extension to an existing theory of argumentation, which I call the Ontology-based Argumentation Formalism (OAF). The work is assessed in both theoretical and empirical ways. From a clinical perspective, there is a problem with the provision of care. Numerous reports have noted the …
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Using problem-centered learning to foster argumentation in introductory sociology
… instructional methods designed to foster argumentation in an introductory sociology course. While no statistically significant differences were found in the overall assignment scores among the three treatment groups, there were significant differences in the effort they expended to achieve …
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