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  1. Tooling up the Multi: Paying Attention to Digital Writing Projects at the Writing Centre

    Tooling up the Multi: Paying Attention to Digital Writing Projects at the Writing Centre

    2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Contributor(s): Stephanie Bell, Brian Hotson | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.785

    With increasing regularity over the last decade, Canadian undergraduate students are being tasked with digital writing projects (DWPs), including wikis, blogs, video and audio essays, websites, and social media engagements. Currently, Canadian writing centres are silent about how DWPs are or...

  2. Threads, Woven Together: Negotiating the Complex Intersectionality of Writing Centres

    Threads, Woven Together: Negotiating the Complex Intersectionality of Writing Centres

    2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Contributor(s): Srividya Natarajan, Patrick Morley | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.801

    The Canadian college where the authors are employed has an ethos that supports its writing centre’s commitment to promoting equitable access to power, education, and employment. In recent years, one result of this ongoing commitment has been the hiring of tutoring staff with diverse identities...

  3. A Tutor-Led Collaborative Modelling Approach to Teaching Paraphrasing to International Graduate Students

    A Tutor-Led Collaborative Modelling Approach to Teaching Paraphrasing to International Graduate Students

    2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Contributor(s): Antoanela Denchuk | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.789

    Language learners are at particular risk of being accused of plagiarism, and this is often due to incorrect paraphrasing and quoting practices. Tertiary institutions tend to provide rudimentary citation resources through their academic integrity initiatives. Handouts, webinars and one-hour...

  4. Genre-specific conventions of the Engineering Notebook.: Writing in Practice

    Genre-specific conventions of the Engineering Notebook.: Writing in Practice

    2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Contributor(s): Faye D'Silva | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.865

    First-year engineering students not only have to grapple with academic discursive practices specific to their discipline, but they also have to learn genre-specific conventions. The engineering notebook is one such genre common in the field of engineering. This article describes specific...

  5. Developing disciplinary discourse in a first-year engineering course: The DELNA initiative

    Developing disciplinary discourse in a first-year engineering course: The DELNA initiative

    2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Contributor(s): Faye D'Silva, Penny Kinnear | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.909

    First-year students in higher education settings tend to face ongoing challenges with variations in discursive practices and genres within their discipline. Within this context, a Diagnostic English Language Needs Assessment (DELNA) was administered to first-year engineering students to assess...

  6. Plain language practices of professional writers in Quebec

    Plain language practices of professional writers in Quebec

    2025-07-10 17:50:17 | Contributor(s): Adeline Müller, Isabelle Clerc, Thomas François | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.849

    This article investigates the plain language practices of professional writers in Quebec, using a survey. We contacted 55 professional writers and asked them to complete an online survey about how they apply plain language in their work, and the type of writing assistance they would find...

  7. PhD Students Learning the Process of Academic Writing: The Role of the Rhetorical Rectangle

    PhD Students Learning the Process of Academic Writing: The Role of the Rhetorical Rectangle

    2025-07-10 17:50:17 | Contributor(s): Beverly FitzPatrick, Mike Chong, James Tuff, Sana Jamil, Khalid Al Hariri, Taylor Stocks, Christopher Cumby | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.873

    PhD students are enculturated into scholarly writing through relationships with their supervisors and other faculty. As part of a doctoral writing group, we explored students’ experiences that affected their writing, both cognitively and affectively, and how these experiences made them feel...

  8. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls National Inquiry: Meta-genre, Genre Hybridity, and Social Change

    The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls National Inquiry: Meta-genre, Genre Hybridity, and Social Change

    2025-07-10 17:50:17 | Contributor(s): Diana L. Wegner, Stephanie Lawless | https://doi.org/10.31468/dw/r.835

    In this paper we present a rhetorical genre analysis of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) National Inquiry. We focus on the concepts of meta-genre and genre hybridity in the context of social change to explore the dynamics of the MMIWG Inquiry as an instantiation of...

  9. Location Matters: Using Online Writing Tutorials to Enhance Knowledge Production

    Location Matters: Using Online Writing Tutorials to Enhance Knowledge Production

    2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Contributor(s): Ilka Luyt | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.965

    Students enrolled in asynchronous online courses explore much of the subject matter through computer-mediated discussion. In this context, students must often negotiate complex factors such as the course content, the assignment goals, their audience, disciplinary expectations, and the writing...

  10. Genre Constituents in “Reflections on Genre as Social Action” – in the Light of 1980s’ Genre Research

    Genre Constituents in “Reflections on Genre as Social Action” – in the Light of 1980s’ Genre Research

    2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Contributor(s): Sigmund Vik Ongstad | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.857

    The article comments upon a special issue on genre in cjsdw, focusing what may be key components or constituents of genre as a general concept. The search for key aspects in these texts are seen in the light of descriptions of genre from the 1980s by Frow (1980), Miller (1984), Bakhtin (1986),...

  11. Constituting good citizen scientists within environmental citizen science discourse

    Constituting good citizen scientists within environmental citizen science discourse

    2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Contributor(s): Philippa Spoel | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.897

    Approaching citizen science discourse as a form of epideictic rhetoric, in this paper I explore how citizen scientists are rhetorically constituted through public-facing communication by five Ontario-based organizations involved in water quality monitoring initiatives. Working from the...

  12. Genres Inside Genres. A Short Theory of Embedded Genre

    Genres Inside Genres. A Short Theory of Embedded Genre

    2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Contributor(s): Sune Auken | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.883

    The concept of the embedded genre is of crucial importance if we want to understand the way genres interact, within any given text, within any given genre, and in forming larger genre patterns. By discussing a tentative distinction between three kinds of embedding, “recontextualized embedding”...

  13. Retraite Québec : la Voix du client au cœur de la simplification

    Retraite Québec : la Voix du client au cœur de la simplification

    2025-07-10 17:50:15 | Contributor(s): Sylvie Émond, Josée Levesque, Stéphanie Rouleau | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1025

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  14. Ministère du Conseil exécutif : Québec.ca, point de convergence de l’administration publique

    Ministère du Conseil exécutif : Québec.ca, point de convergence de l’administration publique

    2025-07-10 17:50:15 | Contributor(s): Émilie Michaud | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1015

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  15. Introduction: The CWCA/ACCR Conference on Transformative Inclusivity

    Introduction: The CWCA/ACCR Conference on Transformative Inclusivity

    2025-07-10 17:50:15 | Contributor(s): Srividya Natarajan, Lisa Kovac | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.997

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  16. Benefits and Challenges of Zoom Tutoring during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Benefits and Challenges of Zoom Tutoring during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    2025-07-10 17:50:15 | Contributor(s): Cassidy Rempel, Helen Lepp Friesen | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.961

    This study aimed to evaluate the benefits and challenges of remote/online tutoring using Zoom software/platform at a Canadian university’s Writing Centre during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020/21. In addition to gathering data on the benefits and challenges of online tutoring, this study also...

  17. Toward Transformative Inclusivity through Learner-driven and Instructor-facilitated Writing Support: An Innovative Approach to Empowering English Language Learners

    Toward Transformative Inclusivity through Learner-driven and Instructor-facilitated Writing Support: An Innovative Approach to Empowering English Language Learners

    2025-07-10 17:50:15 | Contributor(s): Elaine Khoo, Xiangying Huo | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.963

    English Language Learners (ELLs) have long been targets for linguicism (i.e., linguistic racism) as they are often subjected to judgement based on deficit models of language proficiency. To support ELLs during the COVID-19 pandemic, a long-running, co-curricular writing support program based...

  18. CNESST : un site Web à rebâtir: Yolène Morency, directrice générale des communications1 Direction générale des communications de la vice-présidence à l’administration et aux communications Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité

    CNESST : un site Web à rebâtir: Yolène Morency, directrice générale des communications1 Direction générale des communications de la vice-présidence à l’administration et aux communications Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité

    2025-07-10 17:50:14 | Contributor(s): Émilie Michaud | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1017

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  19. SAAQ : le grand chantier des communications écrites

    SAAQ : le grand chantier des communications écrites

    2025-07-10 17:50:14 | Contributor(s): Krystel Delage | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1011

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  20. SAAQ : le désir de mieux répondre à la clientèle ayant des besoins particuliers

    SAAQ : le désir de mieux répondre à la clientèle ayant des besoins particuliers

    2025-07-10 17:50:14 | Contributor(s): Camille Cantin | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1019

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