Teaching Undergraduate Researchers to Theorize and Practice Narrative Inquiry

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Jaqueline McLeod Rogers | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.11

Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common part of student writing. I begin this article by proposing that undergraduate students can benefit from a course that teaches them about narrative, a mode of knowing many theorists claim is unique to...

Qualite de la relation entre administration et usagers : la part informationnelle de l'asymetrie. Interpretations d'usagers et approche macro-discursive de la marge redactionnelle

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Karine Collette | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.548

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Carol Berkenkotter, Vijay K. Bhatia, & Maurizio Gotti, Eds. (2012). Insights into Academic Genres, Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG.

2025-07-10 17:50:33 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Reviewed by Sarah Banting | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.38

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Borrowed Voices: Conversational Storytelling in Midwifery Healthcare Visits

2025-07-10 17:50:33 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Pamela McKenzie, Philippa Spoel | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.36

Midwifery in Ontario, Canada exists at the intersection of mainstream healthcare ideology and an alternative, woman-centred ideology of care. As a result, midwifery interaction is characterized by discursive hybridity. We trace this hybridity in the conversational stories co-narrated by...

Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Essay | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Roger Graves | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.47

As writing specialists, members drawn from the writing studies community of Canada instantiated in academic writing-related associations (such as those listed at the end of this document) have put together the following statement on writing centres and staffing. Our goal in writing this...

Writing at the Centre: A Sketch of the Canadian History

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Essay | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Janet Giltrow | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.48

This contribution to our national discussion on writing studies and writing centres takes the long view, seeing recent events—reorganisations, reclassifications—as a chapter in the history of writing centres in Canada. It is a long view, but neither as long nor as broad as it could be, for it...

Han Yu (2015). The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication. New York, NY: Baywood Publishing Company.

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Suzanne Rintoul | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.44

Han Yu’s "The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication" challenges the notion that technical writing is too “rational” or “serious” to accommodate the conventions of comics-style communication. She does this by illustrating comics’ unique ability to distill and reinforce...

The Historical Formation of Academic Identities: Rhetoric and Composition, Discourse and Writing

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Louise Wetherbee Phelps | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.37

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From the Editors

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Jaclyn Rea, Katja Thieme, Anneke Van Enk | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.42

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Tim William Machan. (2009). Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Nadeane Trowse | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.49

Tim William Machan’s book Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English illuminates the status of English in the context of a conflictual history. It has been on my desk for some time while I have engaged in inner and outer debate about it, mostly about why I find it so rich...

Editorial: The Rectification of Names

2025-07-10 17:50:31 | Essay | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Joel Heng Hartse, Sibo Chen, Marie-Josée Goulet | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.572

Welcome to the new issue of the Canadian Journal of Studies in Discourse and Writing/ Rédactologie. This issue marks several beginnings for the journal: there is a new editorial team; the journal’s archives will soon be fully available online; and the journal has moved to an...

Sword, H. (2017). Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

2025-07-10 17:50:31 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Cecile Badenhorst | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.611

Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing (2012) and The Writer’s Diet (2016), is a staunch campaigner for shaking the dust off academic writing. She advocates that style, elegance and readability are not incompatible with rigorous research reporting. In her most recent book, Air &...

Review of "Detox Your Writing" and "Getting Published in Academic Journals"

2025-07-10 17:50:30 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.610

In an era of increasing pressure to publish and complete doctoral degrees as quickly as possible, all while managing heavy administrative workloads, it likely comes as no surprise that do-it-yourself (DIY) doctoral supervision tools are becoming increasingly prolific (Kamler & Thomson,...

Reiff, M. & Bawarshi, A. (Eds.). (2016). Genre and the Performance of Publics. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.

2025-07-10 17:50:30 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Matthew Falconer | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.613

Mary Jo Reiff and Anis Bawarshi’s edited volume, Genre and the Performance of Publics, was released during a time when I felt that Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) had started to stabilize in terms of advances within the field. Decades of quality research into the different genres found in...

Report from the Relaunch of the CJSDW/R

2025-07-10 17:50:29 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Amanda Goldrick-Jones | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.574

On November 17, 2016, the editors of the CJDSW/R hosted an event at the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Harbour Centre campus in Vancouver celebrating the relaunch of the journal. Attendees came from a variety of institutions across British Columbia, including SFU, the University of British...

Designing Effective Training Programs for Discipline-Specific Peer Writing Tutors

2025-07-10 17:50:29 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Shelley Appleby-Ostroff | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.604

This article demonstrates how the training of peer writing tutors in a disciplinary setting can be informed by writing centre scholarship and framed by the “Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing” (Graves, 2016). More particularly, the article offers a set of theory-supported criteria for...

Lamberti, A. P. & Richards, A.R. (Eds.). (2011). Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric and Professional Communication. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing.

2025-07-10 17:50:29 | Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): David Thomson | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.612

In Complex Worlds, editors Adrienne P. Lamberti and Anne R. Richards have set themselves a challenging task: to bring together a coherent set of perspectives relating to digital culture while promoting an open-ended flexibility suggested by their preferred term, “digital divergence” (p. 2)....

Locating Canadian Writing Centres: An Empirical Investigation

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Pamela Bromley | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.578

As writing centres in Canada face challenges to their existence, funding, and stature, it may be helpful to situate the Canadian experience empirically. This project investigates the number of, geographical, institutional, and physical locations of, and longevity of Canadian writing centres...

Interrogating Conflicting Narratives of Writing in the Academy: A Call for Research

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Katie Byrant | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.576

A safe haven in an often unsafe place: I would use this metaphor to describe the space writing studies and a university writing centre have offered me, as I’ve attempted to find my own place as a feminist in the academy. I feel these two things are my rocks. They are firm, solid places for me...

Writing on the Ground

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Janna Klostermann | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.577

This essay responds to the recent “Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing” (Graves, 2016), making visible differing conceptualizations of writing in it. More particularly, I will make visible traces of the statement that position writing as a measurable skill, aligning with the priorities...