Socratic strategies and devil's advocacy in synchronous CMC debate

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 172-182

  Walker, S Aisha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argument; Dialogue; Discussion; Synchronous computer mediated communication (CMC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543002889     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2004.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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