College Composition and Communication Dec 2023

Readiness to Learn: Variations in How Students Engage with the Teaching for Transfer Curriculum

Kathleen Blake Yancey ; Sonja Andrus ; Matthew Davis ; Sharon Mitchler ; Liane Robertson ; Kara Taczak ; Howard Tinberg ; Tanner WouldGo

Abstract

This article outlines the concept of readiness to learn (RTL) as a framework for explaining students’ differentiated engagement with the Teaching for Transfer (TFT) curriculum. As documented in student voices, RTL operates along a continuum ranging from preparing to engage, on one end, to enacting TFT, on the other, with beginning to engage in the middle.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2023-12-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc2023752248
Open Access
Closed
Topics
voice and style

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Fiscus-Cannaday et al. (2025)
    Contextualizing Reflective Writing for Creating Change: A Cross-Institutional C…
    College Composition and Communication

Cites in this index (3)

  1. Yancey et al. (2019)
    The Teaching for Transfer Curriculum: The Role of Concurrent Transfer and Insid…
    College Composition and Communication
  2. Reiff et al. (2011)
    Tracing Discursive Resources: How Students Use Prior Genre Knowledge to Negotia…
    Written Communication
  3. Murray (1982)
    Teaching the Other Self: The Writer's First Reader
    College Composition and Communication
Also cites 4 works outside this index ↓
  1. Robinson (2009)
    The Writer’s Personal Profile: Student Self-Assessment and Goal Setting at Start of Term
    Across the Disciplines  ↗
  2. Smith (2019)
    Readiness to Learn Among Adults with Low Skills
    Wiley Handbook of Adult Literacy  ↗
  3. Yancey (2018)
    Writing across College: Key Terms and Multiple Contexts as Factors Promoting Students’ Tr…
    WAC Journal  ↗
  4. Yancey (2014)
    10.2307/j.ctt6wrr95
    Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing  ↗
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