Thus, the idea is that as we pose new kinds of questions to the history of philosophy we will find in women philosophers an important, sequential discussion that we can securely thread into our curricula and textbooks.
Finally, in recognition of the sometimes lengthy and tediously detailed threads that can emerge from sequential discussion, we have developed a manually curated database, SEQwiki Lii et al., 2012), that consists of frequently asked questions, analysis methods, tutorials and sequencing service providers.
Analysis was made of patterns of sequential organisation in discussions between students in UK university seminars.
Like panel interviews, panel discussions, i.e. discussions involving a host mediating between several guests, appear constrained by expectations and attendant turn-taking practices which give them distinctive sequential and discourse characteristics, and make them in principle a safe context in which to promote lively debate.
Therefore, given this sequential posting behavior, online discussion threads follow a tree network structure.
We follow with a discussion of sequential monitoring and interim analysis techniques, which are used to examine the primary outcome while the trial is ongoing.
Principles of socio-linguistic conversation analysis and documentary method [ 51] will be applied, – based on the reconstruction of the sequential order of the discussion, to draw special attention to sequences in which participants show a high commitment (i.e. overlapping contributions of several participants) or in periods of silence within the group discussion.
It was found that only four micro-genres occurred in the examinations, namely expositions, personal reflections, discussions, and sequential explanations.
Although labelling the links was deemed unnecessary - most relations were causal or sequential -, it provoked discussions about what was cause and what consequence.
We elaborate further on the reasons we chose to use a BAR design rather than a group-sequential design in the discussion.
Table 3 Micro-genres of the writing tasks Micro-genre Number Proportion in percentages Expositions a b24 42.8 Personal reflections b23 41.1 Discussions a 8 14.3 Sequential explanations 1 1.8 aFive tasks were judged to be both exposition and discussion texts.
