Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing

About the Authors

aB oUt the aUthors Kathleen Blake Yancey is Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. She has served as the elected leader of several scholarly organizations, including the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA). Codirector of the Inter/ National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research and editor of College Composition and Communication, Yancey has authored or co-authored over seventy articles and book chapters , and authored, edited, or co-edited eleven scholarly books—including Portfolios in the Writing Classroom, Reflection in the Writing Classroom, and Delivering College Composition. Among her current projects is The Way We Were: Everyday Writing in the 20th Century United States. Liane Robertson is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University of New Jersey, where she also serves as the assistant director of the writing and rhetoric program. For the past several years her publications and research have primarily focused on transfer and the content of writing courses, specifically the role content plays in fostering the transfer of writing knowledge and practice across multiple contexts. She is currently conducting a multi-institutional research study comparing content across various sites of writing, exploring further the potential for selected content to effect transfer. Robertson is also involved in research on writing assessment. Her latest writing project centers on threshold concepts in writing. Kara Taczak is on the writing faculty at the University of Denver, where she teaches firstyear composition and advises first-year students. Her research centers on the intersection of reflection and transfer of knowledge and practice. Taczak’s current research project seeks to determine how reflective practices encourage and/or support the transfer of writing knowledge and practice from FYC to other academic writing sites. As an Elon Research Seminar participant, she is also a member of a multi-institutional research study comparing content across multiple sites of writing. Taczak’s publications have appeared in Composition Forum, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and ATD: Across the Disciplines. ...