Hi Folks,
I’m pleased to share the news that another open-access book has been added to the Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition book series, which is co-published by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. The book is the eleventh in a series edited by Charles Bazerman, Mary Jo Reiff, and Anis Bawarshi.
Writing Knowledge Transfer: Theory, Research, Pedagogy
By Rebecca S. Nowacek, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, and Angela Rounsaville
Writing Knowledge Transfer: Theory, Research, Pedagogy develops a capacious understanding of transfer in writing studies, tracing the distinct ways transfer has been engaged in various disciplinary fields and drawing connections among similar threads of inquiry. Working from a large-scale, collaborative analysis of some of the most salient long-term debates around transfer, this book guides scholars to link long and broad transfer conversations, attend to troublesome transfer problems in their teaching or research, and support both amplitude (more capacious understandings of writing transfer) and specificity (more detailed and relevant treatments of the term) in research on the transfer of writing knowledge. In addition to a detailed synthesis of multiple disciplines’ treatment of transfer, the book offers five themes developed during a rigorous transdisciplinary reading of approximately seven hundred books and articles on transfer from disciplines including cognitive psychology and situated learning; sports, medical, and aviation education; second language writing; and school-to-work research, among others. Together the themes capture the interdependent relations among transfer’s actors, influences, contexts, and outcomes. They also provide new frames for better understanding learners’ varied and even paradoxical motivations for writing. Ultimately, the book offers value and kinship across disciplines to suggest new transfer questions, lines of inquiry, and theoretical and methodological commitments.
You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/referenceguides/transfer/. The print edition is available for purchase from Parlor Press at https://parlorpress.com/products/writing-knowledge-transfer. Thanks to Rebecca, Rebecca, and Angela for their work on the book and for their decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.
All the best,
Mike
Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Professor of English
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Palmquist
