Transfer

Blog Post#12

Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)

I share the perceptions of Bergman and Zepernick, students don’t tend to transfer knowledge from a first year writing course to other courses or disciplines. I also agree that this is because students don’t see the relevance of the information and that students just write to please their current teacher.

The writing knowledge/practices that I’ve developed in English 1001 (006) are helpful in the sense that they don’t hinder or hamper my writing in anyway. I don’t think that I’ll use them out side of an English course tho, because I’m just not very dedicated to writing. I’m also not to sure of how useful it will be in any of the job settings that I’ll find myself in.

The basic stuff like catering to an audience, genre, and rhetoric would be a seamless transition because those are skills that I’ve found inherent in most writing. Making lists of topics and/or genres that I would like to cover in a writing could also be transferred to any writing situation as well. I don’t identify very much as a writer, mostly because I follow the logic that just because you work with wood that doesn’t make you a carpenter. I think the same about writing just because I can write that doesn’t make me a writer.