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The TPC Contact Zone: Preparing Graduate Student Instructors for Students’ Writing Realities

by Anna D’Orazio, Katie Monthie, Brooke Boling, and Alex Evans | Xchanges 19.1, Spring 2025


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Contents

Introduction

Katie’s Narrative

Anna’s Narrative

Brooke’s Narrative

Alex’s Narrative

Practical Strategies

Works Cited

About the Authors

Works Cited

Adler-Kassner, Linda, and Elizabeth Wardle, editors. Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Utah State UP, 2015.

Anderson, Lora. “Introduction.” Rewriting Work, edited by Lora Anderson, The WAC Clearinghouse/UP of Colorado, 2023, pp. 3-18.

Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. 2nd ed, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

Beaufort, Anne. College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction. UP of Colorado, 2007.

Blackmon, Codi Renee. “On Developing a TPC Program Graduate Orientation.” Programmatic Perspectives, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024, pp. 71-109.

Carrington, Nick and Jennifer Wingerter. “The Value and Use of the Advisory Board.” Programmatic Perspectives, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024, pp. 128-147.

Carrion, Melissa, and Ed Nagelhout. “Empowering Stakeholders in a Cohort of Interdisciplinary Writing Minors: Flexibility, Agency, Reciprocity, and Accountability.” Programmatic Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 2, 2022, pp. 52–75.

Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces, vol. 1, 2010, pp. 249-262. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/dirk--navigating-genres.pdf

Doan, Sara. “Chapter 1: What Are We Really Teaching? Revisiting Technical and Professional Communication’s Pedagogical Training.” Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication, edited by Joanna Schreiber and Lisa Melonçon, The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado, 2022, pp. 19–38. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.37514/TPC-B.2022.1381.2.01.

Elliot, Norbert. “Assessment.” Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication, edited by Han Yu and Jonathon Buehl, The WAC Clearinghouse/UP of Colorado, 2023, pp. 45-51.

Gallagher, Jamey and Kris Messer. “The Real World and Reading Realities of Returning Students.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2022, vol. 50, no. 2, pp 146-159.

Hundleby, Margaret, & Allen, Jo (Eds.). Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication. Routledge, 2010.

Jacobson, Brad, Madelyn Pawlowski and Christine M. Tardy. “Make Your ‘Move’: Writing in Genres.” Writing Spaces, vol. 4, 2021. https://writingspaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/jacobson.pdf

Melonçon, Lisa. “Emphasizing Place in Workplace Research.” Rewriting Work, edited by Lora Anderson, The WAC Clearinghouse/UP of Colorado, 2023, pp. 47-66.

Pratt, Mary Louise. “Arts of the Contact Zone.” Profession, 1991, pp. 33-40.

Shipka, Jody. Toward a Composition Made Whole. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

Soliday, Mary. Everyday Genres: Writing Across the Disciplines. Southern Illinois University Press, 2011.

Speicher Sarraf, Krista. “Engaging in Mutual Mentoring: A Heuristic to Transfer Knowledge as a Technical and Professional Communication Administrator.” Programmatic Perspectives, 2024, vol 15., no. 1, 2024, pp. 148-160.

Wardle, Elizabeth. “‘Mutt Genres’ and the Goals of FYC: Can We Help Students Write the Genres of the University?” College Composition and Communication, vol. 60, no. 4, 2009, pp.  765-789.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake, Liane Roberston, and Kara Taczak. Writing Across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing. Utah State University Press, 2014.

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Posted by chanakya_das on Mar 26, 2025 in Issue 19.1

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