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

2025-07-10 17:50:30 | Review | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Review | Contributor(s): 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 | Review | Contributor(s): 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 | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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...

2017 Year-End Editorial

2025-07-10 17:50:27 | Essay | Contributor(s): Joel Heng Hartse | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.628

Traditionally, the editorial note for an issue or volume of a journal would start on page 1—or even page I—but one of the unique things about an article-based, open access publishing model is that we assemble the issue on the go—so rather than “introducing” Vol. 27 of the CJSDW/R, I find...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:27 | Review | Contributor(s): 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 | Review | Contributor(s): 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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Article | 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...

Intersections between Tutorial Engagement, Directive Feedback, and Critical Reflection

2025-07-10 17:50:26 | Article | 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...