scholarly journals Escritura académica en tres escuelas de ingeniería chilenas: La familia ‘Informe técnico’ como macrogénero discursivo en el área de Ingeniería Civil Informática

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-130
Author(s):  
Enrique Sologuren Insúa
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Technical Report ◽  
Academic Genres ◽  
Didactic Strategies ◽  
Significant Attention

Los géneros producidos por estudiantes han comenzado a recibir mayor atención debido a su diversidad de funciones en el aprendizaje disciplinar. Así, este trabajo se enmarca en el ámbito del estudio de géneros de formación en español. El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar, definir y caracterizar los géneros de la familia ‘informe técnico’ con el objeto de comprender su rol formativo en la enseñanza de la ingeniería civil y en los procesos de alfabetización académica-profesional en esta disciplina. El estudio se aborda desde un enfoque cualitativo, particularmente desde la teoría del género del discurso y explora el macrogénero informe técnico en ingeniería civil informática (MGITEC) en el corpus de aprendientes HÉLICE-2017. Esta familia genérica presenta una alta relevancia en el discurso académico de la ingeniería civil y en la subdisciplina informática. Los resultados del análisis de los corpus textuales evidencian la gran diversidad de recursos genéricos utilizados en la comunidad de práctica concernida. A partir de los datos obtenidos se identificó un continuum de los géneros discursivos que van desde informes orientados a la inserción académica hasta la producción escrita de informes orientados a contextos profesionales. En él se despliega una amplia variedad de tipos de informes que cumplen propósitos formativos de relevancia en la aplicación de pensamiento analítico, crítico y creativo para la resolución de problemas: la raison d’être de la ingeniería. Finalmente, la investigación permite configurar relaciones intergenéricas en la escritura académica de informes y proyectar estrategias didácticas de alfabetización disciplinar en el ámbito de la ingeniería. Genres written by students have received significant attention due to its diversity of functions in subject learning. Thus, the present article is framed within the study field of academic genres in Spanish. The aim of this research is to identify, define and characterize genres of the ‘technical report’ family to understand its educational role in civil engineering and in the processes of professional-academic literacy in this field. The study adopts a qualitative approach, specifically from the discourse genre theory and explores the technical report macrogenre in computer science civil engineering (MGITEC, for its acronym in Spanish) in the student corpus HÉLICE-2017. This genre family is highly relevant in the academic discourse of civil engineering and in the subdiscipline computer science. Results of the text corpus analysis reveal a great diversity of genre resources used in this community of practice. In consequence, a continuum of discourse genres was identified based on the collected data, from reports of academic insertion to reports of professional context. Different types of reports are displayed in this continuum. These reports meet relevant educational purposes when it comes to using analytical, critical and creative thinking for problem solving: the raison d’être of engineering. Finally, this piece of research makes it possible to define relations between genres in the academic writing of reports and to provide didactic strategies for subject literacy in engineering.

A Need Analysis in Academic Writing by Using Integrative-Based Approach: The Perspective of University Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helaluddin Helaluddin
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
University Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Academic Genres ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This article discusses the needs and interests of the university students in Banten Indonesia for learning to write with an integrative approach as an initial stage in the development of academic writing textbooks. The participants in this study were 60 students in the first semester of the 2018/2019 academic year who took an Indonesian language course. It was found that students were familiar with writing activities. But the majority were limited to non-academic genres such as writing poetry, short stories, and writing personal blogs. Also, students have almost the same problems in academic writing, both from linguistic aspects, technical aspects, to issues of developing writing ideas. Another thing that was found in this study was the participation of lecturers who they expected in guiding and providing input during academic writing learning.

Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shurli Makmillen ◽  
Michelle Riedlinger
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
Academic Genres

AbstractThis study contributes to research into genre innovation and scholarship exploring how Indigenous epistemes are disrupting dominant discourses of the academy. Using a case study approach, we investigated 31 research articles produced by Mäori scholars and published in the journal AlterNative between 2006 and 2018. We looked for linguistic features associated with self-positioning and self-identification. We found heightened ambiguous uses of “we”; a prevalence of verbs associated with personal (as opposed to discursive) uses of “I/we”; personal storytelling; and a privileging of Elders’ contributions to the existing state of knowledge. We argue these features reflect and reinforce Indigenous scholars’ social relations with particular communities of practice within and outside of the academy. They are also in keeping with Indigenous knowledge-making practices, protocols, and languages, and signal sites of negotiation and innovation in the research article. We present the implications for rhetorical genre studies and for teaching academic genres.

The schematic structure of Spanish PhD thesis introductions

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Carbonell-Olivares ◽  
Luz Gil-Salom ◽  
Carmen Soler-Monreal
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Spanish Literature ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Rhetorical Studies ◽  
Phd Theses ◽  
Academic Genres ◽  
Phd Thesis

Since the 1990s written academic genres have received considerable attention in discourse and rhetorical studies, especially texts written in English. Although few studies describe PhD theses as a genre, some work has been carried out on their macrostructure and the rhetorical moves of certain sections. In the Spanish literature, genre studies on academic writing are scarce relative to those in English, especially in the case of doctoral theses. We analyse the introductions of 21 doctoral theses in computing written in Spanish using Bunton’s model (2002) for thesis introductions in English. The results indicate that most of the steps in this model are applicable to our corpus, but several new steps and sub-steps have been distinguished to account for the observed moves of Spanish PhD thesis introductions. The complexity of the thesis introduction is related to the scope and depth of the research carried out for a doctoral thesis, the need to display extensive knowledge of the field and to justify the relevance of the research.

Creativity in CS1: A Literature Review

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Sadia Sharmin
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Computer Science Education ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Introductory Programming ◽  
Introductory Programming Courses ◽  
Programming Courses

Computer science is a fast-growing field in today’s digitized age, and working in this industry often requires creativity and innovative thought. An issue within computer science education, however, is that large introductory programming courses often involve little opportunity for creative thinking within coursework. The undergraduate introductory programming course (CS1) is notorious for its poor student performance and retention rates across multiple institutions. Integrating opportunities for creative thinking may help combat this issue by adding a personal touch to course content, which could allow beginner CS students to better relate to the abstract world of programming. Research on the role of creativity in computer science education (CSE) is an interesting area with a lot of room for exploration due to the complexity of the phenomenon of creativity as well as the CSE research field being fairly new compared to some other education fields where this topic has been more closely explored. To contribute to this area of research, this article provides a literature review exploring the concept of creativity as relevant to computer science education and CS1 in particular. Based on the review of the literature, we conclude creativity is an essential component to computer science, and the type of creativity that computer science requires is in fact, a teachable skill through the use of various tools and strategies. These strategies include the integration of open-ended assignments, large collaborative projects, learning by teaching, multimedia projects, small creative computational exercises, game development projects, digitally produced art, robotics, digital story-telling, music manipulation, and project-based learning. Research on each of these strategies and their effects on student experiences within CS1 is discussed in this review. Last, six main components of creativity-enhancing activities are identified based on the studies about incorporating creativity into CS1. These components are as follows: Collaboration, Relevance, Autonomy, Ownership, Hands-On Learning, and Visual Feedback. The purpose of this article is to contribute to computer science educators’ understanding of how creativity is best understood in the context of computer science education and explore practical applications of creativity theory in CS1 classrooms. This is an important collection of information for restructuring aspects of future introductory programming courses in creative, innovative ways that benefit student learning.

scholarly journals Impact of Membrane Computing and P Systems in ISI WoS. Celebrating the 65th Birthday of Gheorghe Păun

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan DZITAC
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Membrane Computing ◽  
Research Area ◽  
P Systems ◽  
65Th Birthday ◽  
Membrane Systems ◽  
Journal Paper ◽  
Technical Report ◽  
The Impact

Membrane Computing is a branch of Computer Science initiated by<br />Gheorghe Păun in 1998, in a technical report of Turku Centre for Computer Science<br />published as a journal paper ("Computing with Membranes" in Journal of Computer<br />and System Sciences) in 2000. Membrane systems, as Gheorghe Păun called the<br />models he has introduced, are known nowadays as "P Systems" (with the letter P<br />coming from the initial of the name of this research area "father").<br />This note is an overview of the impact in ISI WoS of Gheorghe Păun’s works, focused<br />on Membrane Computing and P Systems field, on the occasion of his 65th birthday<br />anniversary.

The Impact of Knowledge of English Rhetorical Patterns of Organisation on BA Accounting and Finance Students' Writing Academic Genres

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-149
Author(s):  
Malika Kouti
Keyword(s):  
Direct Instruction ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Rhetorical Patterns ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Academic Genres ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the impact of knowing the English rhetorical pattern of organisation on BA Accounting and Finance students' academic writing. More specifically, it focuses on the knowledge of how to structure a letter of application for job hunting purposes. This case study involved the analysis of 40 letters of application written by 40 Accounting and Finance students in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Ghardaïa, Algeria after they had been trained to structure this type of letter. The training lasted for two sessions in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Ghardaia University, Algeria. The training was a direct instruction in which students were shown activities that assisted them in mastering the rhetorical pattern of organisation that concerns letters of application. They were also shown the difference between formal and informal letters of application. The obtained results demonstrated the efficiency of the direct instruction in teaching Accounting and Finance students how to write a letter of application.

scholarly journals Reports of the AAAI 2012 Spring Symposia

AI Magazine ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Harith Alani ◽  
Bo An ◽  
Manish Jain ◽  
Takashi Kido ◽  
George Konidaris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Social Computing ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Intelligent Robots ◽  
Personal Wellness ◽  
Technical Report Series ◽  
Symposium Series ◽  
Technical Report

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science, was pleased to present the 2012 Spring Symposium Series, held Monday through Wednesday, March 26–28, 2012 at Stanford University, Stanford, California USA. The six symposia held were AI, The Fundamental Social Aggregation Challenge (cochaired by W. F. Lawless, Don Sofge, Mark Klein, and Laurent Chaudron); Designing Intelligent Robots (cochaired by George Konidaris, Byron Boots, Stephen Hart, Todd Hester, Sarah Osentoski, and David Wingate); Game Theory for Security, Sustainability, and Health (cochaired by Bo An and Manish Jain); Intelligent Web Services Meet Social Computing (cochaired by Tomas Vitvar, Harith Alani, and David Martin); Self-Tracking and Collective Intelligence for Personal Wellness (cochaired by Takashi Kido and Keiki Takadama); and Wisdom of the Crowd (cochaired by Caroline Pantofaru, Sonia Chernova, and Alex Sorokin). The papers of the six symposia were published in the AAAI technical report series.

scholarly journals Move Analysis of Conclusions as Components of Research Articles in Persian and English

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 09 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerannaz Zamani ◽  
Saman Ebadi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
International Discourse ◽  
Novice Writers ◽  
Chi Square Analysis ◽  
Conclusion Section

The structure of the conclusion sections in Research Articles (RAs) is of significance in academic writing. The conclusion section does not only provide an outline of the study, but also other important elements, such as recommendations, implications and statements of possible lines of future research. This paper reports on an analysis of the conclusion sections of Persian and English Research Articles (RAs) published in international journals. To meet this end 20 RAs were selected from the fields of Civil Engineering and Applied Linguistics. The Conclusion sections of the papers were examined for their moves based on Yang and Allison’s (2003) move model.  The frequency analysis of the moves showed slight differences among the moves employed and the Chi-Square analysis did not show significant differences between the moves used in Conclusion sections of RAs in Civil Engineering and Applied Linguistics as well as between Persian and English RAs. The study contributes to a richer understanding of the conclusion structure of research articles and offers ESP/EFL instructors and researchers, insights which can be used in the instruction of the conventions or expectations of academic writing. Novice writers and non-native students can benefit from it, mainly because it helps them eliminate their writing dilemmas and assists them to take part in international discourse communities.  Key Words: Conclusion section; Contrastive move analysis; Genre analysis; Research articles

scholarly journals Cogniton-based Enlightenment of Creative Thinking: Examplars in Computer Science

2012 ◽  
Vol 03 (08) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Quan Cheng ◽  
Shiyao Jin
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Creative Thinking
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