Making Pharmaceutical Industry Rhetoric an Object of Study

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Judy Segal | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.14

Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients, New York: Nation Books, 2005. 254 pages.Key words: rhetoric of science, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical marketing, condition branding, medicalization

Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Catherine G. Taylor, Across the Disciplines: Academic Writing and Reading, Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2011. 470 pages.

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ivan Roksandic | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.13

Key words: academic writing, academic discourse, writing in the disciplinesJaqueline McLeod Rogers and Catherine G. Taylor, Across the Disciplines: Academic Writing and Reading, Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2011. 470 pages.

Arran Stibbe. (2012). Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology and Reconnection with the Natural World. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press.

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Reviewed by Michelle Riedlinger | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.39

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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 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Reviewed by Sarah Banting | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.38

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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 | 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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | 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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:31 | 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 | 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 | 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...

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 | 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)....

Report from the Relaunch of the CJSDW/R

2025-07-10 17:50:29 | 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...

Graves, R. & Hyland, T. (Eds.). (2017). Writing assignments across university disciplines. Bloomington, IN: Trafford.

2025-07-10 17:50:27 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Daniel Richards | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.741

For the last three years, I have been part of a team of multi-disciplinary faculty that holds a weeklong workshop each semester for approximately twenty teachers. These teachers, migrating to our cozy space in the library from all corners of campus, have applied—they get paid a modest sum,...

Waite, S. (2017). Teaching queer: Radical possibilities for writing and knowing. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh.

2025-07-10 17:50:27 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.739

I started reading “Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing” on an unusually warm day in April, peacefully sitting outside on my blanket under a tree. Now covered in tree sap, the book sticks to my desk, requiring a firm but gentle nudge to remove it. The sap also obscures...

Miller, C. R. & Kelly, A. R. (Ed.). (2017). Emerging genres in new media environments. Palgrave Macmillan/ Springer

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Tania S. Smith | https://doi.org/10.31468/dw/r.863

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Words have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools. Jane Griffith. University of Toronto Press, 2019.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Shurli Makmillen | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.877

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Changing practices for the L2 Writing Classroom: Moving beyond the five-paragraph essay. Nigel A. Caplan and Ann M. Johns (Eds.). The University of Michigan Press, 2019

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Subrata Bhowmik | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.867

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Genre-based writing: What every ESL teacher needs to know. Christine M. Tardy. University of Michigan Press, 2019

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Subrata Bhowmik | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.861

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A Genre Analysis of Social Change: Uptake of the Housing-First Solution to Homelessness in Canada. Diana Wegner. Inkshed, 2020.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Laila Ferreira | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.879

This is a book review so there is no abstract.

Unruly rhetorics: Protest, persuasion, and publics. Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt, & Nancy Welch (Eds.). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sarah Banting | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.885

None: this is a book review

An A to W of Academic Literacy: Key Concepts and Practices for Graduate Students. Mary Jane Curry, Fangzhi He, Weijia Li, Ting Zhang, Yanhong Zuo, Mahmoud Altalouli, & Jihan Ayesh. University of Michigan Press, 2021.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Caroline Diezyn | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.907

In the 2018-2019 academic year, the number of international students registered at Canadian universities rose to over 318,000 (Government of Canada, 2020). Hailing from diverse linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds, these students face unique challenges when starting academic studies in...