Assessing Citizen Participation in Public Processes: Making Visible the Ephemera of Decision-Making Talk

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Diana Wegner | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.17

This paper contributes to current research in communications, rhetoric, and discourse analysis that extends disciplinary interests into the study of citizen participation in public processes. The impetus for this study comes from the troubling consensus that many public decision-making...

Humboldt Meets Bologna: Developments and Debates in Institutional Writing Support in Germany

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Felicitas Macgilchrist, Katrin Girgensohn | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.9

This article outlines the coming of age of writing pedagogy in German institutions of higher education and explores the role of the ‘Hausarbeit’ in contemporary universities. Traditionally, the 6,000-12,000 word Hausarbeit was the mainstay of academic writing in all university courses in the...

Teaching Undergraduate Researchers to Theorize and Practice Narrative Inquiry

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Jaqueline McLeod Rogers | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.11

Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common part of student writing. I begin this article by proposing that undergraduate students can benefit from a course that teaches them about narrative, a mode of knowing many theorists claim is unique to...

Convalescence from Modernity: Writing Assessment in the Epoch of Scientism

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Anthony Petruzzi | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.12

While some argue that post-modernity has overcome the era of modernity, claiming a rupture from previous ways of thinking and acting, reports of the ‘death of modernity’ have been greatly exaggerated. Its tenets continue to order and constitute values—transmitted by cultural dispositions—and...

Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Catherine G. Taylor, Across the Disciplines: Academic Writing and Reading, Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2011. 470 pages.

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Review | Contributeur(s): Ivan Roksandic | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.13

Key words: academic writing, academic discourse, writing in the disciplinesJaqueline McLeod Rogers and Catherine G. Taylor, Across the Disciplines: Academic Writing and Reading, Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2011. 470 pages.

Transitional Writing and "Third Space" Learning: Professional Writing Students and the Work Experience

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Diana Wegner | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.10

This paper is based on a long-term study of professional writing students in an internship, "work experience" course. Building upon work theorizing the problematic gap between classroom instruction and workplace practice, this study extends analysis to explore the role of transitional pedagogy...

Introduction

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Eric Kavanagh | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.546

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Rediger au gouvernement : entrevue avec Sonya Trudeau, redactrice professionnelle

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Isabelle Clerc | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.547

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Qualite de la relation entre administration et usagers : la part informationnelle de l'asymetrie. Interpretations d'usagers et approche macro-discursive de la marge redactionnelle

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contributeur(s): Karine Collette | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.548

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Borrowed Voices: Conversational Storytelling in Midwifery Healthcare Visits

2025-07-10 17:50:33 | Article | Contributeur(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...

Carol Berkenkotter, Vijay K. Bhatia, & Maurizio Gotti, Eds. (2012). Insights into Academic Genres, Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG.

2025-07-10 17:50:33 | Review | Contributeur(s): Reviewed by Sarah Banting | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.38

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From the Editors

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

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Tim William Machan. (2009). Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Review | Contributeur(s): Nadeane Trowse | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.49

Tim William Machan’s book Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English illuminates the status of English in the context of a conflictual history. It has been on my desk for some time while I have engaged in inner and outer debate about it, mostly about why I find it so rich...

Han Yu (2015). The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication. New York, NY: Baywood Publishing Company.

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Review | Contributeur(s): Suzanne Rintoul | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.44

Han Yu’s "The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication" challenges the notion that technical writing is too “rational” or “serious” to accommodate the conventions of comics-style communication. She does this by illustrating comics’ unique ability to distill and reinforce...

Writing at the Centre: A Sketch of the Canadian History

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Janet Giltrow | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.48

This contribution to our national discussion on writing studies and writing centres takes the long view, seeing recent events—reorganisations, reclassifications—as a chapter in the history of writing centres in Canada. It is a long view, but neither as long nor as broad as it could be, for it...

Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing

2025-07-10 17:50:32 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Roger Graves | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.47

As writing specialists, members drawn from the writing studies community of Canada instantiated in academic writing-related associations (such as those listed at the end of this document) have put together the following statement on writing centres and staffing. Our goal in writing this...

Sword, H. (2017). Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

2025-07-10 17:50:31 | Review | Contributeur(s): Cecile Badenhorst | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.611

Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing (2012) and The Writer’s Diet (2016), is a staunch campaigner for shaking the dust off academic writing. She advocates that style, elegance and readability are not incompatible with rigorous research reporting. In her most recent book, Air &...

Editorial: The Rectification of Names

2025-07-10 17:50:31 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Joel Heng Hartse, Sibo Chen, Marie-Josée Goulet | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.572

Welcome to the new issue of the Canadian Journal of Studies in Discourse and Writing/ Rédactologie. This issue marks several beginnings for the journal: there is a new editorial team; the journal’s archives will soon be fully available online; and the journal has moved to an...

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 | Contributeur(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...