Tuesday, April 5: Teaching for Transfer

Read

Yancey, K., Robertson, L., & Taczak, K. (2014). Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing (1 edition). Logan: Utah State University Press.
Read Chapter 2: “The Role of Curricular Design in Fostering Transfer of Knowledge and Practice in Composition.”
Swales, John. “Create a Research Space.” (two pages) (reserves link)

Planning

In Class

Discuss “Writing, Visualizing, and Research Reports.”

Discuss CARS and Teaching for Transfer.

Summarize central idea or “mechanic of transfer.” Explain how this approach might inform a first-year writing class and a literature class.

  • “Naturalized” Transfer.
  • Writing About Writing.
  • Agents of Integration.

View excerpts from Take 20.