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Composition and Big Data /

"In a data-driven world, anything can be data. As the techniques and scale of data analysis advance, the need for a response from rhetoric and composition grows ever more pronounced. It is increasingly possible to examine thousands of documents and peer-review comments, labor-hours, and citatio...

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Other Authors: Miller, Benjamin (Poet) (Editor), Licastro, Amanda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In a data-driven world, anything can be data. As the techniques and scale of data analysis advance, the need for a response from rhetoric and composition grows ever more pronounced. It is increasingly possible to examine thousands of documents and peer-review comments, labor-hours, and citation networks in composition courses and beyond. Composition and Big Data brings together a range of scholars, teachers, and administrators already working with big-data methods and datasets to kickstart a collective reckoning with the role that algorithmic and computational approaches can, or should, play in research and teaching in the field. Their work takes place in various contexts, including programmatic assessment, first-year pedagogy, stylistics, and learning transfer across the curriculum. From ethical reflections to database design, from corpus linguistics to quantitative autoethnography, these chapters implement and interpret the drive toward data in diverse ways"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780822988199