Writing & teaching for transfer


Workshop 3/3



--Michael Rifenburg
                                             * some material taken from Yancey et al.'s July 2016 CWPA workshop

Reminders

We need to focus on transfer of knowledge & practice

We need to help students see themselves as novices writing into expertise (Sommers & Saltz, 2004)

We need to introduce a set of 11 key terms and concepts

We need to content grounded to terms and concepts

We need a passport assignment

We need structured reflection woven into the curriculum

Students transfer...

rhetorical terms aiding in the understanding of writing as theory and practice

use of reflection as a tool for learning, thinking, and writing in the course and beyond

the development of a theory of writing that helps students create a framework of writing knowledge and practice they'll take with them (p. 57)


Key terms and concepts


audience
genre
rhetorical situation
reflection
exigence
critical analysis
discourse community
knowledge
context
composing
circulation  (p. 57)

tft syllabus

Pages 150-156

TFT Week by Week

Look at Appendix C

Let's chat about each assignment briefly.

What stands out to you?

What might need adjusting for local needs / context?

keeping in touch


writingacrosscontexts.blogspot.com
TFT listserv: email kyancey@fsu.edu

moving forward

Think about designing a TFT class for Spring 2017.
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