Writing in Transit

Ideal for both first-year composition and interdisciplinary writing courses, Writing in Transit offers a two-tiered approach to multidisciplinary writing. Author Denise Comer presents strategies and instruction for navigating the purposes for writing through writing transfer, which encourages students to reflect on what they learn in one context about writing, and about themselves as learners and writers, and then apply, extend, reject, or otherwise modify this knowledge for other disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary contexts. Writing in Transit teaches students how to build practical bridges between disciplines’ discourse conventions by learning about the research and writing process. Writing in Transit calls students to be reflective in their writing, constantly considering which writing approaches work best for them as individuals and under what writing circumstances. Students learn to ask critical situational writing questions to help transfer their writing knowledge across many contexts.