The Role of Argumentation in Online Knowledge Building Activities
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This paper attempts to study the relationship of argumentation and knowledge building at a discourse level. Its basic research question is whether discourse more indicative of argumentation also indicates characteristics of knowledge building. A total of two databases of online discourse generated by sixth-grade and tenth-grade students were analyzed to see whether the findings can be generalized. It was found that when students put forward arguments, more of their discourse was of higher quality from the perspective of knowledge building. The pattern was consistently found for the two grades of students, even though they produced different amount of arguments in their discourse. Besides, their discussion threads were more sustained with the appearance of opposite ideas.
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