Hello. As we near the end of our course, I
wanted to think carefully with you about something called writing transfer.
This is of key importance because it involves you thinking about how you're
going to transfer the knowledge, practices and skills that you've gained
in this course, and that you continue to gain.
To other writing situations. For any course to be really useful across
any discipline, any course, you want to think about how you can apply that
knowledge and bring that knowledge to other situations.
As well as reflecting on you as a learner, right?
What did you as a learner learn in that course that you can now bring to other,
other situations and perhaps change and reshape depending on the context.
So, writing transfer is a term that people in the field of writing studies
talk about it's, it's of key importance so I, I want you to be thinking about,
about your own writing transfer. Some of the key points about writing
transfer include. That it is dynamic, which means it's not
a static process where even you have like a set of ideas and you bring it from one
writing occasion to another writing occasion.
Sometimes that's true, but I think it's more about the idea that you are
transferring the way you approach things and some of the practices that you've
gained. And then adding new contextual
information to those in a new setting. So for example, if you take a course like
this, like English composition one, and you learn a way of writing here.
And then you go to write a lab report in a biology class two years from now,
you'll want to think about how you can adapt, and shift, and shape the, what you
learned about yourself as a writer to that biology lab, occasion.
And, and that occasion in the biology class is going to be reshaping and
reconstituting the way that you write too.
And then you're going to continue to build up on that, sometimes in a
recursive nature. The categories of things to think about
with writing transfer include skills. Right?
Specific skills concise writing might be, might be one of those skills.
But also process, the process of drafting and revision, and feedback.
And of designing and posing questions. And of researching, those are all
processes. And then finally, it's a complicated word
but it's a good word, epistemology, which is kind of the, the way that you make
knowledge, it's the way that you learn things.
So how can you transfer what you are learning about yourself as a learner to
other occasions and this might involve things to do with writing or it might
involve. Things to do with knowledge experience,
interaction. It might be kind of things that even
expand beyond the category of, of writing itself.