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FW: New research seminar: Critical transitions - writing and
the question of transfer
Dear
ICED Council Members,
Please share the announcement below with interested members of
your networks. We are eager for participants from across the
globe. Questions about the seminar can be directed to me.
Many thanks.
Peter
Peter Felten
Assistant Provost
Elon University
President, POD Network (2010-2011)
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Elon University, in the United States, is pleased to announce
the 2011-2013 Elon University Research Seminar on Critical
Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, a
two-year research seminar that will facilitate
multi-institutional research. We invite interested scholars from
across the disciplines to submit applications to join a cohort
of researchers collaborating on the study of writing transfer at
critical transitions.
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?
The 2011-2013 Elon Research Seminar will be led by Chris
Anson (Distinguished University Professor and
Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North
Carolina State University), Randy Bass (Executive
Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and
Scholarship at Georgetown University), and Jessie Moore
(Professional Writing & Rhetoric Coordinator at Elon
University).
Program Overview
The Elon Research Seminar will support multi-institutional
research addressing and surrounding this theme over a two year
period, with two one-week summer meetings on the Elon University
campus, as well as a third culminating meeting of a yet
determined form.
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June 12-17, 2011:
Working with multi-institutional teams formed by ERS and focused
on the same critical transition, participants will meet on
Elon’s campus to develop and plan research projects to be
conducted throughout the following year at the participants’ own
institutions.
· June 17-22, 2012 (tentative dates): Participants
will meet to share their initial results, and to plan a more
sharply focused research agenda for the research cohort for year
two. These research cohorts will afford inter-institutional
collaborations that enable larger scale studies and explorations
of the impact of different institutional contexts.
· Summer 2013: Participants will reconvene to share
their year two results, to plan continuations of their work,
and/or to host a conference on writing transfer.
Participant expenses
The Elon Research Seminar is sponsored and coordinated by
Elon’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.
Expenses related to the seminar, including lodging and meals
during the seminar’s 2011-2013 summer meetings, will be paid by
Elon University. Each participant will be granted $1000
($500/year for summer 2011 and 2012) to support travel to the
seminar’s June meetings at Elon University. Other participant
expenses, including additional travel and any research costs,
will be paid by the participants and/or their home institutions.
To learn more about the research seminar and how to apply, visit
http://www.elon.edu/writingtransfer
<http://www.elon.edu/writingtransfer>
. Applications are due November 8, 2010.
Questions should be directed to Dr. Jessie L. Moore at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
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