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Agents of Integration Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781336153608
  • 9780809390885
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PE1404 .A346 2011
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Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 and Rhetoric Series

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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.

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