ABSTRACT
As students move across these sites during both the horizontal experience of general education and the vertical progression of the major, they “transfer” knowledge and practice in writing; that is, they take what they have learned—about writing itself and about how to write—in one setting and adapt it—appropriately, the authors hope—for another. In the words of the Elon Statement on Writing Transfer, Successful writing transfer occurs when a writer can transform rhetorical knowledge and rhetorical awareness into performance. Research into writing across the college years is relatively young. Universities began including writing in the first year of college in the late nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that writing across the curriculum programs began. Given the needs described previously and the role that ePortfolios can play in hosting and fostering transfer thinking, the way forward is fairly clear.
