Writing transfer frameworks
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Teaching for Transfer (TFT) frameworks are pedagogical models designed to help students apply writing knowledge and strategies across diverse contexts, genres, and disciplines. These frameworks emphasize reflection, genre awareness, rhetorical adaptability, and metacognitive practices. Influential models include:
- Yancey, Robertson, and Taczak’s Teaching for Transfer (TFT) Curriculum
- Core Features: Key terms, reflection, writing across multiple contexts.
- Source: Writing Across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing (2014).
- Key Terms: genre, rhetorical situation, audience, context, purpose, reflection.
- Transfer as Boundary Crossing (Nowacek, 2011)
- Views transfer as moving between communities with different rules.
- Emphasizes discourse community awareness and adaptation.
- Transformative Transfer (Wardle, 2007)
- Transfer happens when students transform writing knowledge, not just replicate it.
- Focus on genre and activity theory.
- High Road / Low Road Transfer (Salomon & Perkins, 1988)
- Low Road: automatic, near transfer (skill-based).
- High Road: mindful, abstracted transfer (requires reflection and abstraction).
- Writing about Writing (WAW)
- Students study writing theory to better understand writing itself.
- Focuses on threshold concepts and metacognition.
- Scholars: Downs & Wardle (2007).
- Threshold Concepts (Adler-Kassner & Wardle, 2015)
- Learning core, transformative concepts helps foster transfer.
- Examples: “writing is rhetorical,” “writing is a process,” “writing enacts and creates identities.”
- Genre Awareness / Genre-Based Pedagogy
- Focuses on teaching students to analyze and adapt to new genres.
- Rooted in rhetorical genre theory (e.g., Miller, Devitt, Bawarshi).
- Reflection and Metacognitive Awareness
- Used across many TFT models.
- Encourages students to think critically about their writing processes and decisions.
- Activity Theory / CHAT (Russell, Spinuzzi)
- Analyzes writing as part of larger systems.
- Helps students understand how writing practices shift between systems.