The purpose of this study (13 page PDF) was "to investigate how students' engagement with and participation in online role play collaborative arguments shaped their literacy practices, and influenced their beliefs and thinking regarding particular societal issue." In particular, "a blog-mediated role play was introduced in English as Second Language (ESL) methods class at one university in Uganda with third year, pre-service students as participants." The key here for participants is to build a credible "rhetorical persona who serves to achieve own rhetorical goals of convincing others to adopt their positions." As is always the case with limited studies like this, the value is in the background and the description of the method, rather than any quantifiable results, and there's quite a lot of it in this paper.
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