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In this article, we argue that individual dispositions, such as motivation, value, and self-efficacy, need to occupy amore central focus in writing transfer research. After describing shifts from focusing on the educational context to the individual in composition research broadly, we examine previous writing transfer research, tracing a growing need in better understanding student dispositions. In the second half of the article, we identify five qualities of student dispositions and describe four specific dispositions—value, self-efficacy, attribution, and self-regulation—that influence writing transfer. The article concludes by emphasizing the role of the individual and by articulating new avenues of research for better understanding student dispositions in writing transfer.  \nA growing body of research in writing studies has focused on understanding students’ struggles to transfer writing knowledge from high school to college, from course to course, and from university to workplace settings. Composition as a field has made tremendous gains in addressing the problem of transfer through activity-based curricular models and in examining students’ knowledge. However, less attention has been paid to individual, internal qualities that may impact transfer; these qualities, which we call dispositions, include what the Framework for Success for Post-Secondary Writing Instruction calls “habits of mind,” such as persistence, self-efficacy and metacognition. As noted educational psychologist David Perkins and others have described, dispositions are not knowledge, skills, or abilities—they are qualities that determine how learners use and adapt their knowledge.  \nIndependently, both authors of this article began dissertations on transfer of learning using exploratory, grounded, and mixed methods approaches to our data collection and analysis. We intended to build upon the rich transfer work of David Russell, David Smit, Anne Beaufort, and Elizabeth Wardle, and to examine curricular interventions for transfer, although our data lead us in amuch different direction. Despite the differences in our geographic locations, the educational levels of our participants, and our research questions, we discovered surprisingly similar findings concerning the importance of individual learner dispositions. Our findings suggested that student dispositions were critical to success in transfer of learning--an emphasis that we had not seen widely addressed in the literature. While we agree that the emphasis on contexts and curriculum are essential for understanding writing transfer, we suggest that dispositions play an equally essential role.  \nIn this article, we argue that writing researchers, writing faculty, and writing program administrators (WPAs) should more explicitly consider the role of learners’ dispositions because this may allow us to more fully understand and address writing transfer. After briefly describing the ways that individuals and contexts interact in the broader composition literature, we discuss previous literature that examines writing transfer. Through this work, we trace a growing emphasis—and need—to better understand student dispositions. In the second half of the article, we articulate a theory of student  \n[http://compositionforum.com/issue/26/beyond-knowledge-skills.php](http://compositionforum.com/issue/","cbCaihFXkCR3nTR8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihFXkCR3nTR8","pdf",69007,15,"English","# Abstract\n## Argument for dispositions in writing transfer\n## Background: context and individual integration\n## Research approach and findings\n## Five qualities and four dispositions influencing transfer\n## Conclusions and future research directions","[{\"question\":\"What does the article claim writing transfer research has underemphasized?\",\"answer\":\"It claims research has paid less attention to individual internal qualities—called dispositions—that can affect students’ ability to transfer writing knowledge.\"},{\"question\":\"Which dispositions does the article highlight as influencing writing transfer?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on four specific dispositions: value, self-efficacy, attribution, and self-regulation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article support its main argument?\",\"answer\":\"It synthesizes prior writing transfer work and uses findings from two exploratory, grounded, mixed-method studies conducted by the authors, showing the importance of learner dispositions.\"}]","Beyond Knowledge and Skills: Writing Transfer and the Role of Student Dispositions | PDF",1792089066,38]