Accession Number:
ADA106372
Title:
Stimulating Rhetorical Invention in English Composition through Computer-Assisted Instruction.
Descriptive Note:
Doctoral thesis,
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1979-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
341.0
Abstract:
The impulse for this research was to combine the renewed interest in teaching invention--the process of exploring a subject to discover ideas or arguments--with the developing technology of instructional computing. the first of three major conclusions was that open-ended or exploratory, supplementary computer-assisted instruction CAI which encouraged growth in the number and the sophistication of ideas could be programmed. The second conclusion was that a systematic inquiry using one of three popular heuristic methods made the experimental groups more alike with respect to the quantity and quality of their ideas and significantly different from a control group. The third conclusion was that the computer-administered, posttest methodology represented a more stringent way for controlling and later replicating quasi-experimental research in rhetoric.
Descriptors:
- *COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION
- *WRITING
- *PERCEPTION(PSYCHOLOGY)
- *LINGUISTICS
- COMPRESSION
- COMPUTER PROGRAMS
- STIMULATION(GENERAL)
- DECISION MAKING
- SKILLS
- STUDENTS
- PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
- REASONING
- PROBLEM SOLVING
- MODULES(ELECTRONICS)
- HEURISTIC METHODS
- HYPOTHESES
- JUDGEMENT(PSYCHOLOGY)
- PHILOSOPHY
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Subject Categories:
- Humanities and History
- Linguistics
- Psychology