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  1. Opening Up Contested Spaces: Interdisciplinary Writing at an HBCU

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Shawn Miklaucic, Erin DiCesare

    Inequalities in academic writing are not uncommon in higher education and become more complex when we look at the landscape of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which serve a...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8052/?v=1

  2. Spacious Grammar: Agency and Intention in the Teaching of Research Writing

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Katja Thieme

    Standardized academic English is now understood to be rooted in histories and practices that are colonial, classist, nationalist, heteronormative, ableist, and sexist. Current teaching of academic...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8050/?v=1

  3. Learning to Unlearn the Teaching and Assessment of Academic Writing

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Mya Poe

    The last two years have raised important questions about how we can make the teaching of academic writing more equitable. In fact, the current moment invites us to “learn to unlearn” ways of...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8045/?v=1

  4. Rethinking the Structures of Academic Writing in the Times of Exacerbated Inequity: An Introduction

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Sean Zwagerman, Kim M. Mitchell

    An introduction to the special issue for Rethinking the Structures of Academic Writing in the Times of Exacerbated Inequity. This paper presents a discussion of the inspiration for this special...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8044/?v=1

  5. Let's Talk...A Pocket Rhetoric. Andrea Lunsford. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

    10 Jul 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):

    By Jordana Garbati

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    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8039/?v=1

  6. What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice. Julia Molinari. Bloomsbury, 2022

    10 Jul 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):

    By Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield

    No description provided. / Aucune description fournie.

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8040/?v=1

  7. The JSTOR Daily Project: Building Genre Awareness through Heuristic Learning

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Sarah Seeley

    The article describes a publicly oriented writing assignment that can be adapted across disciplinary contexts. The assignment is linked to the JSTOR Daily publication with its tagline “where news...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8031/?v=1

  8. Higher Education Internationalization and English Language Instruction. Xiangying Huo. Springer, 2020

    10 Jul 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):

    By Qinghua Chen

    The book "Higher Education Internationalization and English Language Instruction" is an autoethnographic work that examines the intersectionality of race and language in the Canadian higher...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8027/?v=1

  9. “Nobody who can’t write can get a degree here”: The story of a Canadian university writing test

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Laura Dunbar

    We see our study as falling into the category of writing program historiography known as microhistory: a narrative reconstruction that explores in thorough detail a particular time period in a...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8025/?v=1

  10. Examining AI Guidelines in Canadian Universities: Implications on Academic Integrity in Academic Writing

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Faith Marcel, Phoebe Kang

    Academic integrity is a crucial aspect of higher education that fosters intellectual honesty and upholds the principles of fairness and trustworthiness (Stoez & Eaton, 2020; Kang, 2022; Eaton,...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8015/?v=1

  11. Truth and Reconciliation through web design: Integrating Indigenist and Western approaches to teaching writing on a writing centre website

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Theresa Bell, Caitlin Keenan, Jonathan Faerber

    We explore relationality and decolonization within the context of our shared attempts to blend Indigenist (Wilson & Hughes, 2019) and Western approaches to information sharing on a redesigned...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8013/?v=1

  12. Introduction: Special Issue on Teaching Academic Writing in Canada

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Sarah Seeley, Oguzhan Tekin, Tyler Evans-Tokaryk

    This article introduces a Special Issue of Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie:Teaching Academic Writing in Canada. It contextualizes the research and pedagogical discussions contained herein, and...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8012/?v=1

  13. Exploring the Writing Process of Multilingual Postsecondary Students

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Tessa E. Troughton

    With an increasingly multilingual population made up of domestic and international students at Canadian universities, there is a knowledge gap about the writing practices of multilingual students...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8010/?v=1

  14. Ctrl+AI+Learn: Contextualizing GenAI Policies for First-Year University Students

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Talla Enaya, Sarah Seeley

    This teaching report describes a workshop delivered at the University of Toronto Mississauga as a part of the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre’s (RGASC) Head Start program. The workshop was...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8007/?v=1

  15. Doctoral Student Reading and Writing: Making Our Processes Visible

    10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Melanie Doyle, Chantelle Caissie

    Reading and writing are core components of what it means to be a doctoral student. Although reading and writing are known to be discursive, socialized practices, doctoral programs often focus on...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/8009/?v=1

  16. How do you wish to be cited? Citation practices and a scholarly community of care in trans studies research articles

    26 May 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Katja Thieme1, Mary Ann S. Saunders1

    University of British Columbia

    citation, trans studies, gender studies, research writing, academic writing, embodied knowledge, pragmatics

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7280/?v=1

  17. A Principled Uncertainty: Writing Studies Methods in Contexts of Indigeneity

    23 May 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Katja Thieme1, Shurli Makmillen2

    1. University of British Columbia 2. Claflin University

    This article uses rhetorical genre theory to discuss methods for writing studies research in light of increasing participation of Indigenous scholars and students in disciplines throughout the...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7985/?v=1

  18. A Principled Uncertainty: Writing Studies Methods in Contexts of Indigeneity

    11 Apr 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Katja Thieme, Shurli Makmillen

    This article uses rhetorical genre theory to discuss methods for writing studies research in light of increasing participation of Indigenous scholars and students in disciplines throughout the...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7279/?v=1

  19. A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President

    05 Nov 2024 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Katja Thieme

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7285/?v=1