This document discusses transitions from academic to professional literacy and the nexus between practical and theoretical aspects. It acknowledges contributions from a QUT team working on transitions, learning, and employability. It presents a literature review on government and university reports and interviews with staff and students. A conceptual framework is discussed based on several references. The document outlines phases of transition over time and defines employability and graduate attributes/capabilities. It distinguishes between tertiary and professional literacies and defines professional literacy. It discusses articulating graduate attributes into professional literacy using a learning continuum concept. Four recommendations are presented for course curriculum design regarding systematically scaffolding students' understanding and development of transitions, employability, and embedding these in core curriculum.

1. Making transitions from academic literacy to professional literacy: the nexus of the practical and the theoretical.

8. Transition phases over time. Taylor, P. G., Millwater, J., & Nash, R. (2007). Talking about transitions: the value of a conceptual approach (p. 3).

12. Tertiary literacies v. Professional literacies