SLATE-Q

Project Origins
SLATE-Q grew out of a research project in which English faculty address student challenges meeting faculty writing expectations, particularly when writing analytical and argumentative texts across various disciplines. We build on some of the work of the original SLATE project in Hong Kong by collaborators Humphrey and Mahboob.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration
SLATE-Q brings together English faculty with training in linguistics with disciplinary faculty in order to make assignment guidelines and genre expectations explicit for students. 

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and genre-based pedagogy
SLATE-Q relies on SFL-based genre pedagogy as a theoretical basis for making genre expectations explicit for students. 

Design-based research: SLATE-Q employs a design-based research approach that involves the collaborative design of scaffolding materials to make writing expectations explicit and the analysis of student writing post-intervention.