College Composition and Communication Sep 2022

Relationality in the Transfer of Writing Knowledge

Angela Rounsaville ; Rebecca Lorimer Leonard ; Rebecca S. Nowacek

Abstract

Developed from a collaborative transdisciplinary analysis of transfer scholarship, we redefine transfer as a relational phenomenon to capture the “dynamic, emergent, embodied, messy” elements of writing transfer (Prior and Olinger 137). Relationality also highlights conceptual relationships in transfer research that produce seeming contradictions but are more often complementary than confounding.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2022-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202232123
Open Access
Closed
Topics
transfer

Citation Context

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