June 5, 2019New Research Methods to Study Writing Beyond the Universityby Julia Bleakney and Paula RosinskiIn this blog, one in a series on topics connected to the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency, we explore new possibilities for research methods that can be used to study writing…
May 14, 2019Salient Practices of Mentoring Undergraduate Research [in Writing]by Eric Hall, Hannah Bellwoar, and Sophia AbbotBased on an extensive review of literature on Undergraduate Research mentoring, Jenny Olin Shanahan, Elizabeth Ackley-Holbrook, Eric Hall, Kearsley Stewart, and Helen Walkington (2015) identified ten salient practices of mentoring that offer undergraduate researchers intellectual, personal/emotional, and professional socialization support….
October 22, 2018Writing Beyond the University in Self-Sponsored Writing Contextsby Paula RosinskiMy first blog post examined broadly the role rhetorical considerations—like audience, writer, genre/text, and context—might play in writing beyond the university research. In this second blog post, I focus on the kinds of writing that happen in the more narrowly…
October 11, 2018Lifespan Writing and Writing Beyond the Universityby Julia Bleakney In this blog, one in a series of blogs on topics connected to the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency, I explore the recently-developed research collaboration on “lifespan writing,”…
September 7, 2018Rhetoric in Writing Beyond the University Researchby Paula Rosinski At the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication, I heard a few speakers wonder if the research on knowledge generalization and transfer had given enough attention to the role rhetoric might play in such learning situations….
September 2, 2018Call for Applications: Writing Beyond the UniversityThe Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University invites applications for the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency. The deadline to apply is November 12, 2018. Led by Julia Bleakney, Jessie L. Moore, and Paula Rosinski,…
August 30, 2018The Writing Center as a Site of Transfer for Consultantsby Julia BleakneyFor researchers seeking to understand more about the transfer of learning about writing beyond the university, former writing center consultants are important alumni to study. In their work in the writing center, undergraduate peer consultants have opportunities not just to…
July 25, 2016Seminar books win awardsTwo books by Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer participants recently earned recognition at the 2016 conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing, written by Kathleen Blake Yancey, Liane Robertson,…
December 9, 2014Year in Review: Videos – Part 2This month we’re taking a look back at some of the Center for Engaged Learning’s most watched videos in 2014 and pairing them with some you might have missed. Created for ISSOTL Online 2013 for the Studying and Designing for…
September 9, 2014Writing and the Question of Transfer: Content Mattersby Jessie L. MooreThe 2011-2013 Elon University Research Seminar on Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer supported multi-institutional research by 45 scholars and resulted in an impressive (and still growing) list of conference presentations and publications. Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and…
