Knowledge Consolidation Analysis: Toward a Methodology for Studying the Role of Argument in Technology Development

Autor/in	Dyehouse, Jeremiah
Titel	Knowledge Consolidation Analysis: Toward a Methodology for Studying the Role of Argument in Technology Development
Quelle	In: Written Communication, 24 (2007) 2, S.111-139 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-0883
DOI	10.1177/0741088306298736
Schlagwörter	Methods; Essays; Rhetorical Criticism; Case Studies; Rhetorical Theory; Persuasive Discourse + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Method; Methode; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation
Abstract	Researchers studying technology development often examine how rhetorical activity contributes to technologies' design, implementation, and stabilization. This article offers a possible methodology for studying one role of rhetorical activity in technology development: knowledge consolidation analysis. Applying this method to an exemplar case, the author describes how explanations of Project Essay Grade (PEG), the first initiative to computerize student essay assessment, made knowledge available about this technology project. More specifically, technologist Ellis Page and his coauthors reworked a key explanatory argument, a justification of PEG's functioning, during the course of several decades, refining and clarifying its key contrasts and strengthening its presentation for generalist educators in particular. Analysis suggests that late presentations of the argument reveal that knowledge was successfully consolidated about a technical procedure Page and his coauthors called "rating simulation." The conclusion discusses the key advantages and limitations of the method. (Contains 1 figure and 4 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10