TY - JOUR T1 - Tracing Discursive Resources: How Students Use Prior Genre Knowledge to Negotiate New Writing Contexts in First-Year Composition JF - Written Communication Y1 - 2011 A1 - Reiff, Mary Jo A1 - Bawarshi, Anis KW - explicit teaching KW - genre KW - knowledge transfer KW - metacognition KW - prior knowledge KW - writing instruction AB - While longitudinal research within the field of writing studies has contributedto our understanding of postsecondary students’ writing development, there has been less attention given to the discursive resources students bring with them into writing classrooms and how they make use of these resources in first-year composition courses. This article reports findings from a crossinstitutional research study that examines how students access and make use of prior genre knowledge when they encounter new writing tasks in first-year composition courses. Findings reveal a range of ways student make use of prior genre knowledge, with some students breaking down their genre knowledge into useful strategies and repurposing it, and with others maintaining known genres regardless of task. VL - 28 SP - 312–337 N1 - + pdf ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Meta-Generic Learning T2 - Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis Y1 - 2004 A1 - Reiff, Mary Jo ED - Stephen G. Brown ED - Sidney I. Dobrin JA - Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis PB - SUNY P CY - New York SP - 35-51 ER -