Exploring Revisions in Academic Text: Closing the Gap between Process and Product Approaches in Digital Writing

Autor/inn/en	Bowen, Neil; Van Waes, Luuk
Titel	Exploring Revisions in Academic Text: Closing the Gap between Process and Product Approaches in Digital Writing
Quelle	In: Written Communication, 37 (2020) 3, S.322-364 (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-0883
DOI	10.1177/0741088320916508
Schlagwörter	Revision (Written Composition); Academic Language; Process Approach (Writing); Computer Use; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrektur; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Prozessorientiertes Schreiben; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	To date, research into dynamic descriptions of text has focused mainly on the spoken mode; and while writing process research has examined language structures, it has largely ignored the functionality (meaning) inherent in them. Therefore, drawing on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and keystroke logging software, this article takes a further step toward an interdisciplinary dialogue by outlining a new schematic for coding and analyzing revisions. More specifically, we show how revision activity can be tracked within functional components, across functional components, and across clauses in terms of forward and backward movements. By exploring three digitally constructed texts, which were produced and observed unobtrusively in a natural setting, we have attempted to illustrate how one writer's revising process can be operationalized in terms of (a) chronological movement (sequence) and (b) spatial movement (location). Findings showed how activity was relatively consistent across datasets with regard to session management, revision frequency, and distribution of revision types. Moreover, results also showed how most revision activity occurred at, or ahead of, the point of inscription, particularly with regard to revising the end of clauses. However, findings also indicated that revising the start of clauses was equally important when considering the size of functional components. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01