The threshold concepts can be found overlapping in a variety of ways: transfer, genre, rhetoric, process, and inquiry work together and allow writers to enhance their ways of communicating with different audiences. I discovered many different examples of this throughout my first semester of college, especially in my English 1001 class.

For instance, transfer can be seen in the ways the other four threshold concepts bleed into other aspects of both education and everyday life. Anytime skills learned in a different realm are used, transfer is occurring, and this therefore includes genre, rhetoric, process, and inquiry.

I have found the concept of process transferred into many of my college classes this semester. We used this concept vastly in English class as each of our Artifacts (major projects) required a proposal submitted, a peer review day in class, and a final submission. This process remained the same, even though the genre for each project was different. This is similar to my final paper process in my philosophy class: we submitted outlines for feedback, composed rough drafts to be reviewed by our peers, and finally revised and submitted final copies. The process concept, and the way I viewed it and participated in it, transferred over from one of my classes to others.

Furthermore, inquiry can be seen as part of the process when composing. For example, part of the process for my Artifact 2 project (an annotated bibliography and synthesis paper relating to communication within our intended fields) involved researching, which starts with a question. Inquiry is all about keeping an open mind and asking questions about both the topic at hand and the world around us. When beginning work on Artifact 2, or the first step in my process, I had to come up with a more specific question in order to conduct my research.