Developing knowledge-transforming writing skills

 An outline

Rakovic, M., Marzouk, Z., Chang, D., & Winne, P. (2019). Towards knowledge transforming in writing argumentative essays from multiple sources: A methodological approach. Companion Proceedings 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, March, 2019. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333680138_Towards_knowledge_transforming_in_writing_argumentative_essays_from_multiple_sources_A_methodological_approach

·         Purpose: To offer a methodological approach to write successful knowledge transforming essays from multiple sources.

·         Thesis statement: Writers can develop skills to move from knowledge telling into knowledge-transforming.

·         Audience: writing experts, university students and teachers.

I.              Abstract

An approach to enhance the process of writing argumentative essays from multiple sources.

II.            Introduction

Methodological approach to develop knowledge transforming writing skills.

III.           Related work and theoretical model

Categorization of evidential sentences in terms of Bloom’s taxonomy

IV.          Method

A.     Corpus and writing task

                   40 argumentative essays written from 5-7 sources

B.     Hand coding – codebook

                   Analyzing arguments and coding sentences

C.    Hand coding – interrater agreement

                   Establishing coding agreement and ensue

D.    Extracting linguistic indices for sentences coded in Writing mode scheme

Grouping variables to predict knowledge transforming from knowledge telling

V.           References

VI.          Appendix