Agents of Integration Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act

Summary: The question of how students transfer knowledge is an important one, as it addresses the larger issue of the educational experience. In Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act, Rebecca S. Nowacek explores, through a series of case studies, the issue of transfer by asking what in an educational setting engages students to become "agents of integration"- individuals actively working to perceive, as well as to convey effectively to others, the connections they make. While many studies of transfer are longitudinal, with data collected over several years, Nowacek's is sync.

Record details

ISBN: 0809390884
ISBN: 9780809390885
ISBN: 9781336153608
ISBN: 1336153601
Physical Description: 1 online resource (189 p.)
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electronic resource
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2011.

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General Note:	Multi-User. Description based upon print version of record. Other Books in the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric SeriesBack Cover
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-159) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Transfer as Recontextualization; 2. "I Finally Feel Like I've Really Learned Something": Students Becoming Agents of Integration; 3. Agents, Handlers, Audience Members: The Challenges Facing Instructors Teaching for Transfer; 4. "It's Really Hard for Me to Articulate, but I Know It's There": Transfer of Writing-Related Knowledge; 5. Implications; Appendix: Assignments from the Interdisc Sequence; References; Index; Author Biography; CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series
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