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Learning Practices

ISU Writing Program learning practices pages share a working definition of the practice and its goals, and descriptions of activity associated with the learning practice in relation to:

  • Pedagogical Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (P-CHAT)

  • Antecedent experience

  • Language difference

  • Cultures and communities

  • Multimodal making

  • Discourse communities

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Writing research is a practice we use to examine how our writing practices, skills, and embodied feelings shape how we write, learn writing, and adapt to writing in particular situations.

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Participatory assessment is a set of practices we use to identify, describe, and evaluate texts written in particular genres.

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Genre research is a practice we use to identify genre conventions (how people write in particular kinds of texts) so that we can create recognizable, effective texts in specific genres.

 

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Uptake is a practice we use to perform many activities–we process, we document, we map, we trace, we make visible–in relation to our evolving writing practices, writing learning, and literate activity understandings.

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Content research is a practice we use to find, process, and attribute information we are writing about, including evaluating all information, practicing ethical citation, and recognizing all research as someone’s writing for a particular writing situation.

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Here, you'll find full text for all 5 ISU Writing Program learning practices (revised in July 2023).

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