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Organizing and Evaluating Ideas in Research-based
Academic WritingWriting Workshop
UBC Faculty of EducationOctober 18, 2013
Alfredo A. FerreiraPhD Candidate
Language & Literacy Education Department
This workshop will help participants’ understanding and practice in three crucial areas of their research-based academic writing: the organization of the message, the packaging of information, and the evaluation of knowledge claims. Our work on organization encompasses the ordering, pre/reviewing , and packaging ideas for flow. As time permits, the workshop also focuses on the writer’s options for evaluating knowledge claims, including those from cited sources.
Workshop Aims
theoretical affinities
Patterns of language in a message/textcorrelate with its social context
theoretical affinities
Patterns of language in a message/textcorrelate with its social context
Systemic Functional Linguistics: A theory of language
Language is a resource for mediating social life, interpersonally and intrapersonally
Language emerges from and evolves with meaning-making in human society
Meanings are reflected in the functional structure of language at various scales of practice, from instances of meaning-making in texts to the open system of language as a meaning potential.
APPLICATIONS
Education/Literacy -language & content -language & contextDiscourse analysis -pragmatics & semantics -sociological analysis -legal -clinical -multimodalComputer-aided communication -text scanners -automatic text generation...
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)
Co-dependency of language use & context(Derewianka, 2012, p.133 - 137) THEORETICAL(p.133,137)
Language in Use: Texts
Situated social practiceSocial context
Language system (lexicogrammar)
Context constrains language use
Language use generates contexts
TE
XT
CO
NT
EX
T
Well legibility and correct punctuation might not be “street”… but that’s how I roll.
FIELD TENOR MODE
Co-dependency of language use & context PREVIEW (Derewianka, 2012, p.133 - 137)CONTEXT/
Register
Lexicogrammar
TEXT:Choices of wording
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)
Social Context
CULTURE
Situation-specific style of language:
REGISTER
Lexicogrammatical system / wording
Instance of social practice
TEXT
Social practices: meaning-making in situated context, has three recognizable aspects
sub-sys sub-sys sub-sys
sub-sys sub-sys sub-sys
3 corresponding subsystems of language choices made in texts, recognizable in through functional grammatical structure
Well legibility and correct punctuation might not be “street”… but that’s how I roll.
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)
Social
context
CULTURE
Situation-specific ways of using language:
REGISTER
Texts as instances meaning-making practice in context
Social practices: meaning-making in situated context, has three recognizable aspects FIELD Context ContextWhat’s going on sub-sys sub-sys
Construing Language Language Experience subsys subsysKinds of verb+ related partic+ circumAbstractionLogic
Well legibility and correct punctuation might not be “street”… (=)
but that ’s [how I roll]. (=) carrrier attr vrb attribute (material vrb: “I” =actor)
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)Social
context
CULTURE
Situation-specific ways of using language:
REGISTER
Texts as instances meaning-making practice
Social practices: meaning-making in situated context, has three recognizable aspects FIELD TENOR ContextWhat’s going on social relations sub-sys
Construing Interacting Language Experience Mood (.?!; match?) subsysKind of verb Modality eg+ related partic - should/must+ circum - might/willAbstractionLogic
Well legibility and correct punctuation might not be “street”…
but that’s how I roll.
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)
Social
context
CULTURE
Situation-specific ways of using language:
REGISTER
Text
Texts as instances meaning-making practice
Social practices: meaning-making in situated context, has three recognizable aspects FIELD TENOR MODEWhat’s going on Social relations Message holds together
Construing Interacting Text organization Experience Mood (.?!; match?) Points of:Kind of verb Modality eg -departure+ related partic - should/must (= Theme)+ circum / - might/will -arrivalAbstraction (= New)Logic Coherence reference
Well legibility and correct punctuation might not be “street”… but that’s how I roll.
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)
Social
context
CULTURE
Situation-specific ways of using language:
REGISTER
Texts as instances meaning-making practice
Social practices: meaning-making in situated context, has three recognizable aspects FIELD TENOR MODE
Expressing Interacting Text structuring Ideas Mood (.?!; match?) Points of:5 kinds of vrb Modality eg -departure+ related partic - should/must (= Theme)+ circum / - might/will -arrivalAbstraction (= New) Coherence reference
Well legibility and correct punctuation might not be “street”… but that’s how I roll.
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)
theoretical affinities
Bi-directional REALIZATIONAL Relation between Wording & Context (ie not causal)
CULTURE CONTEXT
Situation-specific style:
REGISTER
WORDING Language choices in a text
Possible & Choices of& appropriate WORDINGWORDING in texts
con
strains re
aliz
e
DYNAMIC!
adapted from Martin & Rose, 2007
Different rates of change: dynamics of meaning across timescales
Development of message in text
Cultural genesis
Textual genesis
Personal (onto) genesis
Development of individual’s repertoire for social agency
Evolution of discourse formations, society & culture
Instruction, ontogenesis, learning, & the development of the potential to mean in context
Yoshiyuki, responding to a question about students’ “usual revising processes for the course writings”:
“I am regretted that I focused too much on revising the parts the teacher commented because… .”
Instruction, ontogenesis, learning, & the development of the potential to mean in context
Yoshiyuki, responding to a question about students’ “usual revising processes for the course writings”:
“I am regretted that I focused too much on revising the parts the teacher commented because there were still rooms for improving the problem of CONTENT and ORGANIZATION, which I failed to taking into account .”
Social Semiotics (Bakhtin, Foucault,
Althusser)
Social
context
CULTURE
Situation-specific ways of using language:
REGISTER
Texts as instances meaning-making practice
Social-cultural practices self-organize naturally into three kinds of meaning FIELD TENOR MODE
Expressing Interacting Text structuring Ideas Mood (.?!; match?) Points of:5 kinds of vrb Modality eg -departure+ related partic - should/must (= Theme)+ circum / - might/will -arrivalAbstraction (= New) Coherence reference
Well legibility and correct punctuation might not be “street”… but that’s how I roll.
Controlled text analysis practice: Discriminating between meanings most relevant to Field, Tenor or Mode
Task in university course quiz: Define “ergonomics” Model “textbook” answer:
Ergonomics is defined as the design of workspaces so that the best is made of human capabilities without exceeding human limitations.
Ergonomics is defined as the design of workspaces so that the best is made of human capabilities without exceeding human limitations.
The model answer achieves
appropriate links between meaning in context (F, T, M) and wording
ie choices in Ideational,
Interpersonal, & Textual functions of
language.
Ergonomics is the appropriate design of work. The best of people’s capacities can be achievedthrough it. People’s limitations, however, arenot exceeded with ergonomic design.
Choices in two metafunctions enact meaning in context appropriately. But choices in one of the metafunctions are not so productive: which one? Field, Tenor, or Mode?
Ergonomics makes the design work well and people make the best of what they are capable of and they made this without going over ourlimitations.
Choices in two metafunctions enact meaning in context appropriately. But choices in one of the metafunctions are not so productive: which one? Field, Tenor, or Mode?