This site is maintained by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric at Elon University. It is intended to showcase my scholarly activity on transfer of writing knowledge and eventually will include a bibliography of other publications on the topic.
Elon Statement on Writing Beyond the University
The Elon Statement on Writing Beyond the University shares the 2019-2022 seminar’s meta-level (cross-team) discussions about understanding writing experiences and knowledge development across contexts for lifelong learning; exploring writers’ experiences, prior knowledge, and writerly capacity; and facilitating writers’ ongoing self-agency and networked learning, which includes both networks of people and networked access to integration of […]
Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing
Read this open access book for free. From the publisher: Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing extends the burgeoning scholarly conversation regarding the role of writing in lifelong and lifewide learning. The collection introduces higher education faculty, staff, and administrators to research on how all members of a campus community can prepare learners to […]
Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency
The 2019-2022 Center for Engaged Learning research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency focused on writing beyond the university in workplaces and civic spaces, contexts for self-sponsored writing, and academic contexts that focus on transitions to contexts beyond the classroom or university. Thirty-four scholars participated in the Center for […]
Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education
Visit the book website From the Publisher (Stylus, 2017): “While education is based on the broad assumption that what one learns here can transfer over there– across critical transitions – what do we really know about the transfer of knowledge? “The question is all the more urgent at a time when there are pressures to ‘unbundle’ higher […]
Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer
From the publisher (WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado, 2016/2017): “In Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, Chris Anson and Jessie Moore offer an important new collection about prior learning and transfer theories that asks what writing knowledge should transfer, how we might recognize that transfer, and what the significance is—from a global perspective—of understanding […]
Elon Statement on Writing Transfer
Developed by participants in the 2011-2013 Center for Engaged Learning Research Seminar, the Elon Statement on Writing Transfer summarizes and synthesizes the seminar’s meta-level discussions about writing and transfer, not as an end-point, but in an effort to provide a framework for continued inquiry and theory-building.
Elon University Research Seminar on Writing Transfer
The 2011-2013 Center for Engaged Learning Research Seminar on Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer supported multi-institutional research by 45 participants from over 20 higher education institutions in 5 countries. The seminar facilitated international, multi-institutional research about writing transfer and fostered discussions about recognizing, identifying enabling practices for, and developing working principles about writing transfer. […]