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"Our door is always open": Aligning Literacy LearningPractices in Writing Programs and Residential LearningCommunities
English
  • Julia Voss, Santa Clara University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2016
Publisher
WAC Clearinghouse/Colorado State University Open Press
Abstract

Writing studies has considered college students' literacy development as a chronological progression and as influenced by their off-campus connections to various cultural and professional communities. This project considers students' literacy development across disciplines and university activity systems in which they're simultaneously involved to look at the (missed) opportunities for fostering transfer across writing courses and residential learning communities as parallel—but rarely coordinated—high-impact practices. Rather than calling for the development of additional programs, I argue for building/strengthening connections between these existing programs by highlighting shared learning outcomes focused on literacy skills development and learning how to learn.

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Across the Disciplinesis an open-access, peer-review scholarly journal published on the WAC Clearinghouse and supported by Colorado State University and Georgia Southern University. Articles are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs).

Citation Information
Voss, J. (2016). “Our door is always open”: Aligning Literacy Learning Practices in Writing Programs and Residential Learning Communities. Across the Disciplines, 13(4). https://wac.colostate.edu/atd/hip/voss2016.cfm.