1. Elon Statement on Writing Transfer Jessie L. Moore Center for Engaged Learning Elon University jmoore28@elon.edujmoore28@elon.edu | @jessielmoore

2. CEL Research Seminars CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore

3. CEL Research Seminars CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer From first-year composition through advanced professional and technical communication, writing curricula are constructed under a foundational premise that writing can be taught - and that writing knowledge can be “transferred” across critical transitions. First-year composition is often a required course for all students with the assumption that what is learned there will transfer to other coursework and throughout students’ educational careers. Senior capstone courses often integrate writing instruction that is intended to transfer to post- graduation writing in new workplaces or graduate or professional programs. Arguably, all of modern education is based on the broader assumption that what one learns here can transfer over there – across critical transitions. But what do we really know about transfer, in general, and writing transfer, in particular? Is “transfer,” and all of the assumptions that tag along with it, the best term to use to understand, enhance, and found writing education?

4. CEL Research Seminars CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer

5. What terms best capture transfer practices and theories? What types of reflection activities best support critical transitions? How do students transfer writing knowledge between languages? CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore

6. How do classroom spaces/space designs impact transfer? How do students transfer writing knowledge between academic and self-sponsored writing? How do specific curricula (e.g., Writing about Writing, Teaching for Transfer) impact transfer? CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore

8. Writing transfer is a complex phenomena, and understanding that complexity is central to facilitating students’ successful consequential transitions, whether among university writing tasks or between academic and workplace or civic contexts. Elon Statement on Writing Transfer

9. CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore Students’ dispositions and identities inform the success of their unique writing transfer experiences. Elon Statement on Writing Transfer

10. CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore Successful writing transfer requires transforming or repurposing prior knowledge (even if only slightly) for a new context in order to adequately meet the expectations of new audiences and fulfill new purposes for writing. Elon Statement on Writing Transfer

11. CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore University programs can “teach for transfer.” Enabling practices that promote writing transfer include focusing on rhetorically-based concepts, asking students to engage in metacognitive awareness, and explicitly modeling transfer- focused thinking. Elon Statement on Writing Transfer

12. CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore Recognizing and assessing writing transfer requires using a mix qualitative and quantitative methods looking at both critical transition points and longitudinal patterns of learning. Elon Statement on Writing Transfer

13. CWPA F8 | @jessielmoore Visit http://www.elon.edu/writingtransfer for both Elon Statement on Writing Transfer and Showcase of ERS Participants’ Supporting Work Elon Statement on Writing Transfer