“Writing Knowledge Transfer Easily” yesterday not be what we think is going to occur. Therefore, we as student get stuck in writing before we even start writing and see what the results looks like. Reading and learning may be different subjects. As an introductory college students taking normal classes, it is important to obtain knowledge, which will be helpful and useful for their next writing courses or to apply those knowledge into more advance classes. Why don’t we just start learning to transfer and move forward to motivate ourselves without thinking about what we can do and can’t do? It is possible to improve writing knowledge transfer in students’ ability. Along the way two other sources will be mentioned.
According to Carillo, he mentions the word “Automatically.” He describes that student don’t automatically transfer what they have learned from one class into another. Student struggle by taking require introductory courses. Students benefit from struggle as it help them to learn their lesson. A students can accomplish writing knowledge transfer by continuing to write, never giving up. For example, let’s say a student doesn’t know how to write the alphabet but he wants to learn how to write, he realized that he can start tracing over the letter, so that later he can quickly write on a paper without looking. This means he is a capable learner and can transfer his writing knowledge. Everything started with just putting the pencil on the paper and starting to write until the edge of the paper.
Furthermore, there are a variety of ways that students may navigate to promote themselves as transfer learners. One of my second sources shows different way of transferring method. According to, “Transfer of Learning, High road and Low road transfer.” Salomon and Perkins (1989, Perkins and Salomon 198). High road transfer is not in general reflexive, but it demands time for exploration and the investment of mental efforts and low road transfer is too mediated by external or mental representations but is a relatively reflexive process. In this case two road can work as a team by getting connected with each other. This is another way in which student can transfer their learning ability. Flexible is another key word for students to be motivated by different learning styles and requirement. For example, “In many situations, transfer will indeed take care of itself – situation where the conditions of reflexive transfer are met more or less automatically “(Salomon and Perkins, p8). Situations come from different angles therefore a student must be influenced by the expert.
Moreover, there are more methods that illustrate how students and transfer learning interact. “Similarity and analogical transfer.” (Vosniadou and Ortony 1989). In this source the authors provide several ways of transferring knowledge especially analogical mapping and relations of situation, etc. When we see the word “map” we know that there are multiple way that student can transfer learning. The part here is that learners can figure out by trying every direction as free-direction. For instance, here what the author mentions by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.” This text the readers might think of an instance of pure mapping by conveying the knowledge structure from the mind of planting, growing to the idea of development where they receive a completely new thought about the latter domain. But the result here is not as much conveying the new knowledge as it is concentrating the attention on certain parts of the existing knowledge.
As a result, every student likes to guide themselves into different direction to select transfer or learning and writing. These authors of the three sources that I have read describe transfer is not impossible but shouldn’t be taken for granted. Day by day we meet the requirement that we need in order to transfer ourselves into different positions. Transfer comes hard when we examine the steps. In this case we must keep marching forward. There is no end for transferring but there is unlimited performance that we can develop to obtain more knowledge from transferring. In education students can achieve plenty of transfer if there is a blueprint.
Sources:
Carillo, Ellen C. “Writing Knowledge Transfer Easily.” In: Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe, (Eds). Bad Ideas About Writing. West Virginia University Libraries, Digital Publishing Institute, 2017, p34-37.
Perkins, D. and Salomon, G. (1992). Transfer of Learning. In: [online] Jaymctighe.com. Available at: https://jaymctighe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Transfer-of-Learning-Perkins-and-Salomon.pdf
Vosniadou, S. and Ortony, A. (1989). Similarity and analogical reasoning. [online] Citeseerx.ist.psu.edu. Available at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.320.7650&rep=rep1&type=pdf