ICT in Education

Writing Heuristics

March 21, 2007

http://uow.ico5.janison.com/ed/subjects/edgi911w/resources/heuristics.htm

In spite of the fact that the guide to writing heuristics itself says that collecting them isn’t “academically respectable”, they are evidently worth investigating as convenient summaries of “the truth” of a theory or body of knowledge.

This is what the guide has to say about writing them:

Structuring your heuristics

Use the following structure to set out each heuristic:

Heuristic statement

• State the issue in a single, active sentence.

Explanation

• Provide an explanation in support of your statement of up to 500 words for each heuristics covering the following:
  • Expand on your statement above to explain what it means in more detail
  • Explain the background to the topic by including references to the relevant concepts from the literature using the correct referencing style
  • Explain what the heuristic means in practice and give examples if appropriate
  • Explain why this is a useful heuristic in your context as a learner, teacher or designer
  • Explain why the issue is important to you, in other words why did you choose to write about it
  • Offer any practical suggestions you might have for other practitioners trying to implement the heuristic

References

• List all the references cited in your explanation as per the convention.

I have four of these bastards to do, God help us all

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