Cover of Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, Edited by Chris M. Anson and Jessie L. Moore

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 knowledge transformation related to writing. The contributors examine strategies for supporting writers’ transfer at key critical transitions, including transitions from high-school to college, from first-year writing to writing in the major and in the disciplines, between self-sponsored and academic writing, and between languages. The collection concludes with an epilogue offering next steps in studying and designing for writing transfer.”

The collection features research from the 2011-2013 research seminar of the same name.

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