7/27 QQ

Yancey's conclusion is that portfolio assessment serves all involved, that "to assert the view of writing and writers put forward by the portfolio practitioners represented in this volume" is to benefit all involved. Do you think this is true? Do you think it privileges one participant over another?

In Reiff's article he writes, "Student's critical awareness of how genres work-their understanding of how rhetorical features are connected to social actions- enables them to more effectively critique and resist genres by creating alternatives." After my internship this morning, the instructor said to me that one thing he sees students struggling with the most is this transfer of the knowing of how a genre works to how to alter it. We thought maybe this has to do with the intertextuality of transfer and the potential lack of varied texts for that student to draw on in the intertextual sense. Thoughts? How do we facilitate this transfer?