Inside this book, Jennifer examines the rhetorical writing skills and practices that help students effectively communicate across contexts while providing successful ways to foster
- inquiry, invention, and rhetorical thinking,
- writing for transfer,
- paraphrasing, summary, synthesis, and citation skills,
- research skills and processes,
- evidence-based reasoning, and
- rhetorical decision making.
Rhetorical decision making helps students develop the skills, knowledge, and mindsets needed for transfer of learning: the ability to adapt and apply learning in new settings. The more choices students make as writers, the better prepared they are to analyze and respond to diverse rhetorical situations.