Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
http://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/
Start Date
15-5-2024
Keywords
Pedagogy, First-Year Composition, Transfer, Multimodality, Teaching, Artifact
Abstract
This research project investigates how my FYC (First-Year Comp) content transfers into my students’ diverse classes, majors, and professional discourses. By interviewing and surveying my past students, I will use transfer theory to evaluate what pedagogical tools and methods lead students to effectively or ineffectively transfer FYC concepts, such as writing process, rhetorical situations, and discourse communities, into their current classes and professional lives. I will also focus on how multimodal activities impacted the learning environment and concept retention. I will interview and survey my students about how FYC knowledge transfers into their other classes. Using this research, I will reflect on my pedagogical development throughout my three quarters teaching FYC and develop strategies to continue to improve my teaching quality. I will examine my pedagogy using a writing-for-transfer framework. Additionally, I intend to add to an already robust field of transfer theory by examining how my students use FYC concepts and skills in their other classes.
Recommended Citation
Sebastiani, Mariah, "Multimodality and Transfer in First-Year Composition: A Pedagogical Reflection" (2024). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 1.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2024/CAH/1
Department/Program
English
Human subject research
1
Mentor of the year award nomination
No, , I do not wish to nominate my primary mentor
Included in
Adult and Continuing Education Commons, Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Higher Education Commons, Instructional Media Design Commons, Language and Literacy Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons
Multimodality and Transfer in First-Year Composition: A Pedagogical Reflection
Ellensburg
This research project investigates how my FYC (First-Year Comp) content transfers into my students’ diverse classes, majors, and professional discourses. By interviewing and surveying my past students, I will use transfer theory to evaluate what pedagogical tools and methods lead students to effectively or ineffectively transfer FYC concepts, such as writing process, rhetorical situations, and discourse communities, into their current classes and professional lives. I will also focus on how multimodal activities impacted the learning environment and concept retention. I will interview and survey my students about how FYC knowledge transfers into their other classes. Using this research, I will reflect on my pedagogical development throughout my three quarters teaching FYC and develop strategies to continue to improve my teaching quality. I will examine my pedagogy using a writing-for-transfer framework. Additionally, I intend to add to an already robust field of transfer theory by examining how my students use FYC concepts and skills in their other classes.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2024/CAH/1
Faculty Mentor(s)
Dr. Paul Martin