2. Case study:
Cmaps in academic writing
Asian EAP PhD students of
academic writing for management.
KUT
3. 3
Dimensions of
Media Object Compehensibility
Lawrie Hunter
Kochi University of Technology
http://www.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/hunter/
KUT
Island of Shikoku
4. Information structures based curriculum
Critical Thinking
Asahi Press 2001
A writing and presentation
workbook,
6 units (6 genres)
in 30 lessons
Say What You Mean
KUT Press 2006
A writing and mapping
workbook,
5 units (5 genres)
in 30 lessons
Thinking in English
A writing and presentation
mapping text/workbook,
5 units (5 genres)
in 30 lessons
5. Language
as a disguise
for information
knowledge
information
data
is organized bits of
is organized bits of
6. Structures invariant across languages
Classification Cause-effect Value
Description Sequence Choice
Mohan, B.A. (1986) Language and Content.
Addison and Wesley.
Rhetorical structures
Argument
Information structures
Syntax structures
Grammar ‘structures’
Mohan’s knowledge structures
(1986)
7. Classification Cause-effect Value
Description Sequence Choice
Mohan's 'knowledge structures'
Comparison Pro-Con
Classification Cause-effect
Description Sequence
Hunter’s ‘information structures'
Hunter’s information structures
(1997)
Structures signaled in text
Rhetorical structures
Argument
Information structures
Syntax structures
Grammar ‘structures’
9. This system
has
good enough
coverage
(80%+)
of the
information
structures
in
technical document content
to be a graphical pattern language.
hunter’s tools:
iconic?
granular
enough?
sufficient
coverage?
28. What structure can you see?
First, open the file and check it.
If the file is OK, choose Print
from the File menu and click
OK in the dialog box. Check the
print and if it’s okay, close the
file.
29. What structure can you see?
First, open the file and check it.
If the file is OK, choose Print
from the File menu and click
OK in the dialog box. Check the
print and if it’s okay, close the
file.
30. Research
complete
Your paper:
many grammar
problems?
Find an
editor
Editor
checks
English
Decide
services
grammar
only
readability
argument
Did the editor
damage your
meaning?
no
no
Decide
feedback
code
Mentor gives
feedback on
2 pages
SUBMIT!
Perfect?
no
You revise
next 2
pages
yes
Paper
finished?
no
You
revise
Do you want to
learn in this
process?
no
yes
Find a
mentor
yes yes
Did you do
dossier work
and apply the
patterns to your
writing?
no
Did you do
lots of rewrites
in TW2RW
HW?
no
yes
Do you
know how to
repair all the basic
meaning
problems
?
no
yes
yes
yes
Can you
write the paper
by yourself?
I think so
no
write
the
paper
Is it good
enough to
submit?
SUBMIT!
SUBMIT!
yes
not sure
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31. Use the infostructure links to map a text.
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Description Classification
Degree
comparison
Attribute
comparison
Sequence Cause-effect
Contrast
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