Pratt, Deirdre Denise2008-07-212008-07-212007http://hdl.handle.net/10321/332Submitted in fulfilment of requirements for Doctor Technology: Language Practice, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2007.An in-depth investigation into the nature of composing was carried out to provide the theoretical basis for a computer mediated learning application, an interactive writing tutor computer program which might be customised by users to fit different educational contexts. The investigation was carried out within a critical realist perspective, from which viewpoint composing can be seen to have an external reality in common with other social phenomena. The intended outcome was to arrive at a description of writing which more closely approximated the reality so as to design more effective learning interactions, in particular, the writing tutor program itselfenWritingWritten compositionComputer mediated learningThesishttps://doi.org/10.51415/10321/332