Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students' Antecedent Genre Knowledge

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Contributor(s): Natasha Artemeva, Janna Fox | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.19

This article explores the role of students' prior, or antecedent, genre knowledge in relation to their developing disciplinary genre competence by drawing on an illustrative example of an engineering genre-competence assessment. The initial outcomes of this diagnostic assessment suggest that...

Structures narratives et congruence cognitive : cas du summary lead et de la pyramide inversée

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Contributor(s): Bertrand Labasse | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.18

Le summary lead (5W+H) et la construction dite en pyramide inversée sont des préceptes dominants dans le champ de la rédaction. Leur validité est examinée ici dans une triple perspective, historique (quelle origine ?), didactique (quel apport en formation ?) et technique (quelle efficacité...

Silent Partners: Student Course Evaluations and the Construction of Pedagogical Worlds

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Contributor(s): Pia Marks | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.16

This pilot study examines the student evaluation of courses as a situated discourse practice. It seeks to understand how the practice informs student and instructor attitudes, practices, and identities by examining a particular case - the course evaluation instrument used in the Faculty of...

Introduction

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Contributor(s): Gloria Burrows | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.15

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Borrowed Voices: Conversational Storytelling in Midwifery Healthcare Visits

2025-07-10 17:50:33 | Contributor(s): 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...

From the Editors

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

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

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

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Designing Effective Training Programs for Discipline-Specific Peer Writing Tutors

2025-07-10 17:50:29 | Contributor(s): 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...

What a Generalist Tutor Can Do: A Short Lesson from a Tutoring Session

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Contributor(s): Tomoyo Okuda | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.580

In parallel to the unique history of writing instruction, Canadian writing specialists have drawn on different theories and principles from the U.S. literature in building their writing studies scholarship (Giltrow, 2016; Graves, 1993; Graves & Graves, 2006; Paré, 2017; Smith, 2006). This...

ELLE of an Opportunity: Student Writers, Civic Audience, and Auction Genre

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Contributor(s): Robin Sutherland, William Chalmers, Mark Currie | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.579

Every February, the Charlottetown chapter of the Canadian Heart & Stroke (H&S) Foundation hosts the “Razzle Dazzle Red” gala, a fundraising event that includes a sit-down dinner and silent and live auctions. “ELLE of an Opportunity” is the name of the very first live auction item, a...

Locating Canadian Writing Centres: An Empirical Investigation

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Contributor(s): 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...

Writing on the Ground

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Contributor(s): 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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:28 | Contributor(s): 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...

The Once and Future Writing Centre: A Reflection and Critique

2025-07-10 17:50:27 | Contributor(s): Anthony Paré | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.573

Despite nearly four decades of teaching and studying writing, including many years as a writing centre instructor and director, I really don’t know what will happen to Canadian writing centres, and I am also uncertain about what should happen. However, I have some reflections on our past, some...

The Languages We May Be: Affiliative Relations and the Work of the Canadian Writing Centre

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Contributor(s): Frankie Condon | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.627

This essay explores the possibility of imagining Canadian writing centres as sites wherein the Canadian commitment to multiculturalism and human rights may be more fully enacted and our country’s historical injustices may be addressed through the collective labours of writing centre scholars,...

Writing in Graduate School: A Found Poem

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Contributor(s): Andrea R Olinger | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.593

The author presents and reflects on a found poem she composed from the final papers of students in her multidisciplinary graduate writing class.

Introduction: Selected Papers from the 2017 Canadian Writing Centres Association Conference

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Contributor(s): Kathy Block, Clare Bermingham, Jordana Garbati | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.725

Our 2017 CWCA conference took place on Canada’s 150th anniversary, and these two themes threaded through the conference, connecting with other discussions about our students’ diverse identities and histories that they bring to tutoring sessions in their languages, their stories, and their...

Students Speak Out: The Impact of Participation in an Undergraduate Research Journal

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Contributor(s): Jordana Garbati, Esther Brockett | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.618

Universities are places where writing plays a central role in knowledge creation and dissemination (Graves, 2011). Students engage with writing in their courses, at their institution’s Writing Centre, and, perhaps more recently, in co-curricular projects such as an undergraduate research...

Intersections between Tutorial Engagement, Directive Feedback, and Critical Reflection

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Contributor(s): Gail Nash, Morgan Dawson, Kaine Gulozer | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.616

A handful of research studies have investigated the effect of writing centre tutorials on subsequent revisions. This classroom-based study adds to that research by reporting results from a collaborative study between a composition professor and a writing centre tutor. The aim of the study was...

The Grammar of Social Justice: Gender Non-Binary Pronouns and the Writing Centre

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Contributor(s): Travis Sharp, Karen Rosenberg | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.615

This paper discusses our writing centre’s outreach to trans and gender non-conforming students on our campus and the subsequent responses to this. Specifically, our writing centre embarked on an outreach campaign through promotional materials and sponsored events. During and following the 2016...