Academic, Author, Composer and Activist, Amanda’s Story

Academic theses writing is a complex task that requires the author to be skilled in argumentation. The goal of the academic author is to communicate clear ideas and to convince the reader of the presented claims. However, few students are good arguers, and this is a skill that takes time to master. In this paper, we present an exploration of lexical features used to model automatic detection of argumentative paragraphs using machine learning techniques. We present a novel proposal, which combines the information in the complete paragraph with the detection of argumentative segments in order to achieve improved results for the detection of argumentative paragraphs. We propose two approaches; a more descriptive one, which uses the decision tree classifier with indicators and lexical features; and another more efficient, which uses an SVM classifier with lexical features and a Document Occurrence Representation (DOR). Both approaches consider the detection of argumentative segments to ensure that a paragraph detected as argumentative has indeed segments with argumentation. We achieved encouraging results for both approaches.

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From generic to descriptive markup: implications for the academic author

Proceedings. Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop ◽

10.1109/sedep.1998.730715 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

T. Sonkkila

Keyword(s):

Academic Author

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The Good Portrait of the Academic Author

Nordicom Review ◽

10.1515/nor-2017-0260 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 85-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lisbeth Thorlacius

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Correct Choice ◽

Charles Sanders Peirce ◽

Roland Barthes ◽

Back Cover ◽

Ferdinand De Saussure ◽

Visual Elements ◽

Academic Authors ◽

Insight Into ◽

Academic Author

Abstract This article aims to give the reader a language with which one can discuss portraits of academics and their usage. Moreover the four most frequently used genres of portraits of academic authors will be introduced. And it will be argued why insight into, and knowledge of these genres is crucial in order to make the correct choice of portrait in the light of the context. The most relevant genres within photography of academics can be found within four categories: The classical portrait, the staged portrait, the situational portrait and the news portrait. When choosing a portrait whether it is for the news, public relations or the back cover of a book it is useful to have a vocabulary about the visual elements concerning photography of academics. Such a language can be provided by semiotics, and in this context I have drawn on aspects of the semiotic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, and Charles Sanders Peirce.

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