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:
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Pedagogical Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (P-CHAT)
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Antecedent experience
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Language difference
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Cultures and communities
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Multimodal making
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Discourse communities
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.
Participatory assessment is a set of practices we use to identify, describe, and evaluate texts written in particular genres.
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.
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.
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.
Here, you'll find full text for all 5 ISU Writing Program learning practices (revised in July 2023).