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...

What about the other 50 percent of the Canadian population? Food allergies ignored in national policy plan

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Contributor(s): Susan Elliott, Francesca Cardwell | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.326

Food allergy is a growing public health epidemic in Canada, affecting 50 percent of Canadian households either directly or indirectly. Despite the physical, psychosocial and quality of life impacts to those affected, food allergy has recently been ignored in the Canadian policy context. While...

What Can Document Designers Learn from Usability Testing?

2025-07-10 17:50:51 | Contributor(s): Karen A. Schriver | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.364

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What Can Students Tell Us about “Skill Building” in Canadian Writing Studies?

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Contributor(s): Christopher Eaton | https://doi.org/10.31468/dw/r.829

This paper comes from narrative research that I did with ten former students who reflected on their experiences with writing both in a first-year writing class and beyond. As the participants and I worked together, it became clear that there was the tension between the way they described...

What Does it Mean to Be White in America: My Multi-Metamorphoses

Contributor(s): Gil Fagiani

Gil Fagiani is a storyteller by nature and by craft, both of which he employs in his essay My Muli-Metamorphoses, a version of which originally appeared in the anthology What Does it Mean to Be White in America (Two Leaf Press). Fagiani traces the dramatic arc of his transformation from a...

What Every Writing Teacher Should Know and Be Able to Do: Reading Outcomes for Faculty Members

2025-07-10 17:50:23 | Contributor(s): Alice Horning

The need for much better preparation of faculty on reading arises from evidence in three areas: students’ problems with critical reading and thinking, lack of extant faculty preparation in reading pedagogy, and an absence of focused faculty development to improve student reading. Many recent...

What is a Rhetoric of Death? End-of-Life DecisionMaking at a Psychiatric Hospital

2025-07-10 17:50:43 | Contributor(s): Judy Segal | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.447

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What Is It Like to Sound Like a Bot?

2025-07-10 17:50:04 | Contributor(s): Amanda Paxton | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1043

This article proposes that the rise of GPT technology presents an opportunity to initiate meaningful discussions in the postsecondary classroom about the connections between writing, language, and personal autonomy. Partly grounded on predictive text, GPT-produced language is often...

What is tragic about Torrismondo?

Contributor(s): Glenn Pierce

What Makes a CSA a CSA? A Framework for Comparing Community Supported Agriculture with Cases of Canada and China

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Contributor(s): Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Weiping Chen, Tony Fuller, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.390

In different parts of the world, community supported agriculture (CSA) has taken a variety of organizational forms, drawn on different ideologies, used a variety of land tenure arrangements, and taken on varied types of market relations in terms of how they arrange sales and memberships....

What the Monk’s Habit Hides: Excavating the Silent Truths in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 31

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Chesney Zegura

In Heptaméron 31, Marguerite de Navarre portrays a lascivious “Cordelier” or Franciscan who takes over a matron’s household during her husband’s absence, kills her servants, and disguises the woman as a monk before abducting her. Despite its surface resemblance to Rutebeuf’s “Frère Denise,”...

What We Talk about What We Talk about Gender-Inclusive Language: Teaching and Learning the Singular “They” in the First-Year Writing Classroom

2025-07-10 17:49:50 | Contributor(s): Sarah Copland | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1107

Over the past decade, interest in the singular “they” has burgeoned in scholarly venues and mainstream media, but writing studies scholars are surprisingly absent in these conversations. To contribute a writing studies perspective, I studied the impact, value, and challenges of teaching this...

What’s Wrong with Mis-devotion? A John Donne Enigma

Contributor(s): Ronald Huebert

The nominal purpose of this article is to develop a cogent and persuasive interpretation of the term “mis-devotion,” a coinage John Donne uses twice in his poems: once near the end of The Second Anniversary and once in the second stanza of “The Relic.” I also cite the two known examples of this...

Where Had All the Flowers Gone? The Missing Space of Female Sonneteers in Seventeenth-Century England

Contributor(s): Diana E. Henderson

Les petits lieux de la poésie lyrique — et en particulier le sonnet — offraient un espace dans lequel les femmes du XVIIe siècle se sont retrouvées. Mais ensuite, qu’est-il advenu en Angleterre de l’immense potentiel du sonnet féminin, en particulier après le premier quart du XVIe siècle ? Les...

Where Lie the Similarities and Differences?: A Comparison of University and Industry Partners in Collaboration

2022-06-13 18:52:49 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens, INKE Research Group | https://doi.org/10.25547/EYAF-QD64

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Who is Studying Italian and Why? Student Responses in the Greater Toronto Area

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Contributor(s): James W. Cortada

Who Were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the English Convents in Exile 1600–1800.

Contributor(s): Jaime Goodrich

This is a review of Who Were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the English Convents in Exile 1600–1800.

Wholesale or Retail? Antoine de Marcourt's The Boke of Marchauntes and Tudor Political Theology

Contributor(s): Torrance Kirby

Le Livre des marchans (1533) d'Antoine de Marcourt a été traduit en anglais et publié en deux différentes occasions. La première édition de langue anglaise, intitulée The Boke of Marchauntes, a été publiée par Thomas Godfray en août 1534 – année de l'adoption de l'Acte de Suprématie par le...

Whose Dolce Vita is this anyhow? The Language of Fellini's Cinema

Contributor(s): Marguerite Waller