College Composition and Communication Sep 2021

Writing Transfer, Integration, and the Need for the Long View

Kevin G. Smith ; Kristi Girdharry ; Chris W. Gallagher

Abstract

Drawing on a five-year study of 20 student writers, this study advances a concept related to but distinct from writing transfer. Integration contextualizes and complicates transfer episodes and encourages us to take a long view of writing development. Like transfer, integration can be facilitated by connectionsand disconnectionswriters perceive between writing contexts.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2021-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202131585
Open Access
Closed
Topics
transfer

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Mack (2024)
    Developing Dispositions for Transfer
    Pedagogy

Cites in this index (4)

  1. Brent (2012)
    Crossing Boundaries: Co-op Students Relearning to Write
    College Composition and Communication
  2. Reiff et al. (2011)
    Tracing Discursive Resources: How Students Use Prior Genre Knowledge to Negotia…
    Written Communication
  3. Roozen (2010)
    Tracing Trajectories of Practice: Repurposing in One Student’s Developing Disci…
    Written Communication
  4. ANSON et al. (1990)
    Moving Beyond the Academic Community
    Written Communication
Also cites 6 works outside this index ↓
  1. Driscoll (2011)
    “Connected, Disconnected, or Uncertain: Student Attitudes about future Writing Contexts a…
    Across the Disciplines  ↗
  2. Lobato (2006)
    “Alternative Perspectives on the Transfer of Learning: History, Issues, and Challenges fo…
    The Journal of the Learning Sciences  ↗
  3. Perkins (2012)
    “Knowledge to Go: A Motivational and Dispositional View of Transfer.”
    Educational Psychologist  ↗
  4. Salomon (1989)
    “Rocky Roads to Transfer: Rethinking Mechanism of a Neglected Phenomenon.”
    Educational Psychologist  ↗
  5. Smart (2002)
    “Learning Transfer or Transforming Learning?: Student Interns Reinventing Expert Writing …
    Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie  ↗
  6. Yancey (2014)
    10.2307/j.ctt6wrr95
    Writing Across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing  ↗
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