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

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Article | Contributeur(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...

Miller, C. R. & Kelly, A. R. (Ed.). (2017). Emerging genres in new media environments. Palgrave Macmillan/ Springer

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Review | Contributeur(s): Tania S. Smith | https://doi.org/10.31468/dw/r.863

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

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Article | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Article | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Article | Contributeur(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...

Words have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools. Jane Griffith. University of Toronto Press, 2019.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Shurli Makmillen | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.877

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Changing practices for the L2 Writing Classroom: Moving beyond the five-paragraph essay. Nigel A. Caplan and Ann M. Johns (Eds.). The University of Michigan Press, 2019

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Subrata Bhowmik | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.867

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Genre-based writing: What every ESL teacher needs to know. Christine M. Tardy. University of Michigan Press, 2019

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Subrata Bhowmik | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.861

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A Genre Analysis of Social Change: Uptake of the Housing-First Solution to Homelessness in Canada. Diana Wegner. Inkshed, 2020.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Laila Ferreira | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.879

This is a book review so there is no abstract.

An A to W of Academic Literacy: Key Concepts and Practices for Graduate Students. Mary Jane Curry, Fangzhi He, Weijia Li, Ting Zhang, Yanhong Zuo, Mahmoud Altalouli, & Jihan Ayesh. University of Michigan Press, 2021.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Caroline Diezyn | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.907

In the 2018-2019 academic year, the number of international students registered at Canadian universities rose to over 318,000 (Government of Canada, 2020). Hailing from diverse linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds, these students face unique challenges when starting academic studies in...

Unruly rhetorics: Protest, persuasion, and publics. Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt, & Nancy Welch (Eds.). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Sarah Banting | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.885

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Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to do Instead). Susan D. Blum (Ed). West Virginia University Press, 2020.

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Kim M. Mitchell | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.881

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

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Article | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Article | Contributeur(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...

Plain language practices of professional writers in Quebec

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

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

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

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

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

Location Matters: Using Online Writing Tutorials to Enhance Knowledge Production

2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Article | Contributeur(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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Article | Contributeur(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),...

Constituting good citizen scientists within environmental citizen science discourse

2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Article | Contributeur(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...