scholarly journals Writing as Responsive, Situated Practice: The Case for Rhetoric in Canadian Writing Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 160-172
Author(s):  
Michael Lukas ◽  
Tim Personn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Situated Practice ◽  
Technical Solutions

This article responds to a widely held presumption that ineffective student writing in Canadian classrooms can be resolved through technical solutions on the model of the popular Grammarly app.  In contrast, this article suggests that a solution to the problem of writing instruction should focus on how to teach argument through rhetoric as a responsive, situated practice that occurs within different dynamic discourse communities. The article makes this case by recommending a renewed emphasis on the rhetorical concept of kairos, which provides students with an ethical comportment for decision-making in a pluralistic and uncertain world. This article concludes with a call for revitalized interdisciplinary attention to rhetoric in Canadian writing studies and programs.

scholarly journals Specifics of Management of Enterprise Innovation Activities in the Czech Republic – The Decision-Making Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
Jindra Peterková ◽  
Jiří Franek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Enterprise Innovation ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Abstract The majority of Czech managers are aware that the long-term competitiveness of the company depends primarily on the use of innovative technical solutions and investments in new technologies. Despite awareness of the importance of innovation, many companies do not know how to manage, implement, and evaluate them. Empirical research showed that most innovation firms implement, but do not systematically manage the implementation of innovative projects and the allocation of funds. There is a contradiction between companies’ ability to orientate themselves in the approaches available in the area of innovation management and the existence of a large number of approaches that can be used to address a particular type of innovation problem. A set of innovation concepts has been created to solve those challenges. Practical steps of the decision-making mechanism for selecting innovation concepts have been proposed. The decision-making mechanism is based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and serves primarily for managers of medium and large enterprises.

scholarly journals Reframing Writing Instruction in Physical Learning Environments: Making Connections Between Digital and Nondigital Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Andy Buchenot ◽  
Tiffany Anne Roman
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Composition Course ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Active Learning Classrooms provide several advantages for teaching and learning by offering many physical and technological affordances that one can choose from when designing instruction. For courses where student writing is central activity to course learning outcomes, a challenge exists in that the innovative digital technologies may hide the opportunity to incorporate non-digital tools, such as paper-based student writing. We argue that treating student writing as a technology can increase opportunities for active learning within technology-enhanced learning environments. In this article, we describe an approach to writing instruction that builds intentional connections between paper-based texts and digital technologies, describing the rationale for the design decisions in an introductory composition course through a design case model. Classroom applications are discussed for physical learning spaces where student writing is incorporated into overall course learning activities.

scholarly journals Sustainable Sanitation Management Tool for Decision Making in Isolated Areas in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Magalhães Filho ◽  
Adriane de Queiroz ◽  
Beatriz Machado ◽  
Paula Paulo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
System Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Sustainable Operation ◽  
Technical Solutions

There is a worldwide range of technical sanitation guidelines focusing on small or traditional and isolated communities for ecological alternatives at the household level. However, a computational tool (software) that has a database and connects these guidelines in a single reference for resource-oriented sanitation concept decision making is still lacking. In this regard, an easy-to-use tool was developed using a participatory approach for the decision-making process from a choice of technical solutions to a type of system management. The results obtained from a pilot study indicate that the proposed tool in this paper will help with the decision-making process to aid in not only choosing sustainable sanitation solutions, but also sustainable operation and maintenance options for the systems. When presenting and discussing the tool with research groups and technicians, the potential for participatory application was noticed. The proposed tool can be used in the elaboration of municipal sanitation plans, assisting local technicians and environmental licensing agencies, designers and engineering students, among others. The software can be applied with other management tools, such as 5W2H and Canvas business model.

A Decision-Making Method for Boosting New Digitalization Technologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Francisco E. Santarremigia ◽  
Sara Poveda-Reyes ◽  
Miguel Hervás-Peralta ◽  
Gemma D. Molero
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Technology Tool ◽  
Technical Solutions

Market acceptance of new digitalization technologies is low. To help to address this shortcoming, the following paper defines a quantitative decision-making methodology for the exante evaluation of the market acceptance of new digitalization solutions in the initial stages of design and development. The proposed decision-making methodology includes a first evaluation, using Volere methodology, for the quantification of how useful the new digitalization solution is for the end users, and a second method, the calculation of the net present value (NPV) based on potential benefits in terms of costs and intangible benefits of the new tool. A new tool for the management of freight transport was used as a case study. The usefulness of a new information technology tool was assessed in six different companies. It was designed to help developers and decision makers in information and communication technology (ICT) product development, and company managers in the evaluation of technical solutions that might better satisfy their needs. Further studies could measure the power of this methodology by comparing the implementation levels of two different prototypes designed for the same function and with different Volere and NPV scorings.

STUDENT METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS IN L2 WRITING: COMPETENCE VS. PERFORMANCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
Branka Milenkovic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
L2 Writing ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Essay Writing

Writing in a second language certainly embodies constraints that are not met in L1 writing due to numerous decisions L2 learners make while producing a text. Many researches have shown that L2 writing is largely based on decision-making with relation to form and search for appropriate words which make the writing process even more complex and time-consuming. Therefore, communicating with the readers through the use of metadiscourse poses an addi- tional obstacle in L2 writing. This paper is concerned with the use of metadiscourse markers in L2 student writing at the Department of English language, at the University of Kragujevac in Serbia. In essay writing research we frequently observe quantitative analysis of specific lan- guage items, however, in this research, we attempt to juxtapose the quantifiable metadiscourse items in student writing with their thinking processes and decision-making while composing. Thus, the research correlates three insights, one being the students’ liability to deep writing, which relies on their metacognitive awareness in writing, established through the modified questionnaire of the Inventory of Processes in College Composition (Lavelle and Zuercher 2001) and based on previous research (Milenkovic & Lojanica 2015). Students’ responses are then correlated with the analysis of 33 student essays on behalf of the use of metadiscourse mark- ers based on A model of metadiscourse in academic texts established by Hyland and Tse (2004). Finally, the students’ metacognitive awareness in writing is analyzed through an introspective questionnaire with the aim to yield qualitative responses in relation to their cognitive ability to reflect upon their writing. The results of the study confirm the common belief that using metadiscourse features is a constraint in L2 writing. Evidently there is a disproportion between the metadiscourse items students use in writing with relation to what they believe that they use and students have displayed more metacognitive awareness in relation to interactive resources as opposing to the interactional resources in academic writing. Implications of the results may establish a basis for a modified teaching practice in second language writing instruction with the aim to enhance students’ communicative competence in writing.

scholarly journals “Caught in the Nets of ‘Discipline’”: Understanding the Possibilities for Writing Teachers’ Resistance to Standardization in Local Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-110
Author(s):  
Bryan J. Duarte ◽  
Curtis A. Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Critical Policy Analysis ◽  
Mandated Curriculum ◽  
Critical Policy

This article contributes to the practice of critical policy analysis by using de Certeau’s concept of consumption to analyze how writing teachers resist policies that work to systemize and commodify student writing. Through narratives, we represent the ways teachers tactically and strategically sidestepped the mandated curriculum in an effort to support their sociocultural views of writing. We use a poem built from participant responses to represent discomfort that teachers felt from dominant forms of organization that tried to define writing instruction. These multiple forms of representation extend the practice of critical policy analysis by allowing us to evoke the grind of resistance to local policy.

Follow this path

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terese Thonus ◽  
Beth L. Hewett
Keyword(s):  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Writing Center ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
Metaphor Use ◽  
E Mail

This paper examines conceptual metaphor use by graduate-student writing consultants in a university writing center. Our goal was to develop a taxonomy for consultant metaphor in asynchronous online consultations; to find evidence that consultants could produce deliberate metaphors as an instructional strategy when responding asynchronously by e-mail to students and their texts; and to compare these data with Thonus’s (2010) investigation of consultant metaphor use in face-to-face consultations, Results showed that writing consultants trained in the use of strategic metaphors employed them in subsequent consultations. In addition, trained consultants used deliberate, coherent, and systematic metaphors in all six categories of our analysis, and they exploited metaphors students had developed in their writing. In comparison with their pre-training metaphor use, the consultants demonstrated increased metaphor use after training and used metaphors significantly differently from consultants who had received no training. We discuss these results in terms of deliberate vs. non-deliberate metaphor use in writing instruction, and we consider the feasibility and advisability of training writing center consultants to employ metaphors — specifically coherent, systematic metaphors — as vehicles for writing instruction in an online setting.

scholarly journals Uwarunkowania i kierunki zmian w procesach decydowania publicznego na szczeblu samorządowym w związku z pandemią koronawirusa

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Kamil Mroczka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Technical Solutions

In recent months, the COVID-19 virus has become a key challenge for all countries, regardless of their geographical location, economic situation or system of government. As stated by Grzegorz Rydlewski, the crisis has become a condition for balancing and targeting the activities of supranational structures, states, various intermediate structures, and individual people (Rydlewski, 2020). The main aim of the present article is to discuss the trends and changes to public decision-making processes introduced by the lawmaker in connection with the epidemic threat to local government administration. Unquestionably, one of the negative effects of the pandemic is the fact that holding meetings of local government bodies in physical form has been unsafe since the outbreak. Legal and technical solutions have been introduced which partly transfer the decision-making process to the digital world by allowing remote meetings for a wide range of statutory bodies. In this context, it is important to examine the usefulness, practicality and efficiency of the solutions adopted, and also to identify key obstacles and challenges to local government decision-making processes. Additionally, examples of ICT tools supporting decision making in local government units will be duly provided. Finally, key problems identified in the course of the analysis in question, e.g., issues related to the area of cyber security, will be also highlighted.

scholarly journals What a Generalist Tutor Can Do: A Short Lesson from a Tutoring Session

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Tomoyo Okuda
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
Hierarchical Learning ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

In parallel to the unique history of writing instruction, Canadian writing specialists have drawn on different theories and principles from the U.S. literature in building their writing studies scholarship (Giltrow, 2016; Graves, 1993; Graves & Graves, 2006; Paré, 2017; Smith, 2006). This is evident in the “Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing” published by the Canadian Journal for Studies of Discourse and Writing (Graves, 2016). As a doctoral student researching U.S.-based writing centres from day one of graduate school, one striking cross-border difference I find was the statement’s clear recommendation that writing centres are fundamentally teaching units in which students learn to write in their disciplines. In American writing centre theory, peer tutoring is the basis of writing centre philosophy, with some claiming that the tutor’s unfamiliarity of the tutee’s discipline enhances the non-hierarchical learning environment (Bruffee, 1995; North, 1984; Pemberton, 1995).

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