{"id":6334,"date":"2005-06-25T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/25\/geisler-on-ment\/"},"modified":"2005-06-25T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T14:22:18","slug":"geisler-on-ment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/25\/geisler-on-ment\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisler on Mental Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Here, just some old notes on genre from the plane ride to Albuquerque last<br \/>\nweek.&nbsp; Clearly, they were written at the choppy altitude of 6,000 feet or<br \/>\nthereabouts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Cheryl Geisler&#8217;s chapter, &quot;Toward a Sociocognitive Model of<br \/>\nLiteracy,&quot; presents the study of four writers (two experts and two novices) who<br \/>\nare charged with producing an academic essay on the ethics of paternalism.&nbsp;<br \/>\nCentrally, Geisler sets out to<br \/>\ncomplicate overlap of academic discourse and conversational models of literacy; she argues that the expert writers<br \/>\n(who notably are performing in their primary disciplinary area: philosophy) are more adept<br \/>\nthan novices at &quot;producing positions&quot; that are better attuned to &quot;specialized<br \/>\ncontexts.&quot;&nbsp; Geisler advances her claim after referring to Langer and<br \/>\nintroducing the familiar axes of social and cognitive (which are admittedly too<br \/>\neasily split):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;In particular, [the results of my study] suggest that experts<br \/>\nat advanced philosophical argument use acts of reading and writing to construct<br \/>\nand act upon <i>socially configured mental models<\/i>.&nbsp; The presence of<br \/>\nsuch mental models, I will argue, indicates that a purely conversational model<br \/>\nof literacy may be missing the point of why individuals propose and maintain<br \/>\nwritten interaction in the first place&quot; (171).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Geisler draws on Scribner and Cole&#8217;s literacy model and<br \/>\nHeritage&#8217;s conversation model to establish the framework for her hybrid model&#8211;a<br \/>\n<i>both-and<\/i> of everyday conversational dynamics and what I will call <i><br \/>\nlogo-buffered<\/i><br \/>\ncognitive activity.&nbsp; Geisler explains that &quot;researchers in cognitive<br \/>\nscience now generally believe that knowledge representations in the form of<br \/>\nmental models play a central role in defining expertise (Glaser; Johnson-Laird)&quot;<br \/>\n(173).&nbsp; These  models are akin to &quot;&#8217;mental maps&#8217; with which we plan<br \/>\nshopping trips and give visitors directions&quot; (173).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">To study the activity of the four writers, she applied three<br \/>\ndata-gathering methods: 1. speak-aloud protocols, 2. complete<br \/>\ncollections of produced text, and 3. interviews.&nbsp; Geisler found that the<br \/>\nparticipants followed relatively similar procedures; their reading and writing<br \/>\nsequences, time-on-task and related activity were similar. Distinctive, however,<br \/>\nwere the experts&#8217; attention to authorship.&nbsp; Both experts engaged the texts<br \/>\nas authored and developed well-positioned critiques thereafter.&nbsp; The novice<br \/>\nwriters, on the other hand, either forwarded a writer-centered perspective on<br \/>\nthe idea of paternalism or established two parallel tracks (i.e. &quot;Here&#8217;s what I think; Here&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhat they think.&quot;).&nbsp; As a way of explaining what she means with &quot;socially<br \/>\nconfigured mental models,&quot; Geisler discusses the differences between turn-taking<br \/>\nin conversation and reader-writer dialogism in literacy practices; the activity<br \/>\nstructure involved in writing includes a different moderation of &quot;reflecting and<br \/>\norganizing&quot; (183).&nbsp; In an echo of her earlier claim, Geisler concludes<br \/>\nwith an offering of the more nuanced hybrid model; she works through a<br \/>\ncharacterization of expertise &quot;as the construction and manipulation of special<br \/>\nsocially configured mental models&quot; (184).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Two amendments to the hybrid model: 1. &quot;advanced literacy<br \/>\npractices are embedded in different social contexts than those of standard<br \/>\nconversations&quot; (185) and 2. the incorporation of mental models, which &quot;both move away from everyday practice<br \/>\nand remain rooted there&quot; (186).&nbsp; And there&#8217;s discussion of the<br \/>\nconfigurative force of shared mental models (are they really shared?&nbsp; how<br \/>\nshared are they?): &quot;These mental models create, in effect, a new plane of<br \/>\nintersubjective knowledge, a third dimension of culturally shared abstractions&quot;<br \/>\n(187).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Looser still:&nbsp; What are mental models, anyway?&nbsp; Are they more than<br \/>\n<i>metaphors<\/i>?&nbsp;<br \/>\nAre socially configurative mental models the same as genres?&nbsp; And where<br \/>\ndoes consciousness figure in?&nbsp;IOW, must we be conscious of the<br \/>\nconfigurative force of the mental model (its intrusion on our activity)?&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn the planning of a shopping trip or the giving of directions to a<br \/>\nvisitor&#8211;take I81 North, exit 23, three rights), the directions and positions<br \/>\nare materially distinctive.&nbsp; The roads and laws allow only so many<br \/>\npossibilities.&nbsp; Different for models?&nbsp;&nbsp; And finally, Bawarshi would have us teach a composition<br \/>\ncourse attendant to genre <i>awareness<\/i>; to what degree are socially<br \/>\nconfigured mental models beneath awareness (i.e. <i>the<\/i> unconscientization<br \/>\nin everyday activity? sub-limin(al)ography?&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe can perform skillfully without pausing to give conscious attention to the<br \/>\ngeneric pre-configurations of the texts we write, yes?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Here, just some old notes on genre from the plane ride to Albuquerque last week.&nbsp; Clearly, they were written at the choppy altitude of 6,000 feet or thereabouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[135,409,1986],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","tag-cognition","tag-geisler","tag-mental-models"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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