ERIC Number: EJ1188982
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 12
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Towards an Understanding of Accommodation Transfer: Disabled Students' Strategies for Navigating Classroom Accommodations
Simpkins, Neil
Composition Forum, v39 Sum 2018
This article offers the term "accommodation transfer" as a way to understand the rhetorical skills disabled students transfer alongside writing knowledge as they access college writing assignments and writing classrooms. This study is based on five qualitative interviews with disabled college students and draws upon both writing transfer research and disability studies. The author explores how participants adapted writing process knowledge and learned how to negotiate their accommodation needs with instructors across their academic careers. Specifically, these negotiations include assessing instructors' stances towards disability and testing effective genres and vocabulary to communicate about disability with instructors. The article concludes with two suggestions for cripping teaching for transfer: embracing and teaching crip time for writing, and highlighting the relationship between mentorship and interdependence.
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Disabilities, College Students, Writing Assignments, Prior Learning, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Student Attitudes, Student Needs, Writing Processes, Transfer of Training, Writing Instruction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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