Abstract To complement earlier studies of writing development in the BAWE corpus successful student ( Nesi & Gardner 2012 ; Staples et al. 2016 ), we examine Systemic Functional Linguistics notion Theme as used by L2 writers across first- and third-year two distinctive discourse types: persuasive/argumentative Discursive assignments soft disciplines Experimental report hard sciences. analys...

first-year university students do not always know what they are trying to write. The problem certainly is not confined to each student’s freshman year—sophomores, seniors, professional writers, and academics all face it. But the struggle to reconcile competing and often contradictory ways of thinking, speaking, and writing are made particularly acute for many first-year students because they ar...

There is a growing interest in persuasive games designed to positively influence players’ well-being in areas such as physical and mental health, particularly in terms of education. Designing such “wellbeing games” is challenging because games themselves have not been sufficiently examined from this perspective. Examining the ways popular games convey messages persuasively is an important step ...

Persuasive technology can be considered part of a wider field of ‘Design with Intent’ (DwI) – design intended to result in certain user behaviour. This paper gives a very brief review of approaches to DwI from different disciplines, and looks at how persuasive technology sits within this space.

Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this persuasive technology 5th international...

The background of persuasive technologies is the traditional interpersonal persuasion, studied for over two thousand years in rethoric, philosophy, and more recently psychology. This last discipline offers many theories models to understand precisely processes that influence human behaviors. These show particular situations are complex, varied, with factors. Therefore, we propose notion adaptiv...

Currently the world is going through a demographic shift that projects the proportion of ageing population will be more than double in the next four decades. This has serious consequences for our current healthcare systems for the ageing population that are prone to chronic diseases. One possible solution is to provide in-home assisted healthcare through technology intervened approaches. This w...

Since a while the ethics of persuasive technology (PT) have been discussed. One interesting approach is the assessment of PTs in the light of discourse ethics and the speech-act theory as proposed recently. While some see such an approach as promising, the author will illustrate that the application of discourse ethics is only appropriate for a few limited persuasive strategies. It is argued th...