Michael Cripps and Eric Drown receive research grant from Council of Writing Program Administrators

Michael J. Cripps, Ph.D., associate professor of rhetoric and composition in the Department of English, and Eric Drown, Ph.D., developmental writing supervisor in the Student Academic Success Center, recently received a research grant from the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) for their project “Tacit Knowledge and Transfer: A Study of Students in Stretch.” One of only two projects to receive CWPA research awards in 2016, Cripps’ and Drown’s work is recognized as having the potential to contribute to an important, emerging area of writing studies. 

The project examines empirically the ways that a Stretch model of composition may support students’ acquisition of threshold concepts of writing studies and the transfer of writing practices from the writing classroom to other contexts. Threshold concepts are understood to be the foundational or core ideas for a discipline or a community of practice. The threshold concept model has only recently been applied to the field of writing studies, and the ways that basic writing courses might support acquisition of such concepts is not well understood. 

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