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 | Contribuidor(es): 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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:06 | Contribuidor(es): Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.971

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

2025-07-10 17:50:06 | Contribuidor(es): Jordana Garbati | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.973

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Joining the Dialogue: Practices for Ethical Research Writing. Bettina Stumm. Broadview Press, 2021

2025-07-10 17:50:06 | Contribuidor(es): Andreas Herzog | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.953

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Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley. Andrea Alden, Kendall Gerdes, Judy Holiday, & Ryan Skinnell (Eds.). Utah State University Press, 2019

2025-07-10 17:50:06 | Contribuidor(es): Dana Landry | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.899

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

2025-07-10 17:50:02 | Contribuidor(es): Qinghua Chen | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1033

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 education system. Through personal stories and narratives, the author explores themes such as...

Two perspectives on generative AI now

2025-07-10 17:49:54 | Contribuidor(es): Boba Samuels | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1093

Two recently published books present perspectives on the impact of generative Artificial Intelligence on writing. Baron’s book attempts to discuss the question of how we might maintain distinctions between the writing done by humans versus that done by genAI, while Tenen’s book takes a...

International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (2023). Plain language - Part 1 : Governing principles and guidelines. Norme ISO 24495-1:2023: Aperçu de la nouvelle norme en langue claire et simple

2025-07-10 17:49:50 | Contribuidor(es): Émilie Michaud | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1077

The International Standard on Plain Language (hereinafter "the ISO standard") sets out guidelines for written communication. Although the ISO standard is currently only available in English, its principles are intended to be universal and are the subject of a consensus. Backed by empirical...

Humanities and Social Sciences Commons. Herramienta para la colaboración y difusión de resultados de investigación

2025-05-08 18:33:40 | Contribuidor(es): Alan Colin-Arce | https://doi.org/10.25547/1FQN-CN48

A Review of Facing Catastrophe? Food Politics and the Ecological Crisis By Carl Boggs

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contribuidor(es): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.552

In his most recent work, Facing Catastrophe, Boggs takes aim at the environmental movement and calls for radical reform. The author argues that political change matching the extent of the ecological problems we face is urgently needed, and that “there can be no routine, painless ‘greening’ of...

Une Recension du livre Diners, Dudes and Diets

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contribuidor(es): Janie Perron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.549

Diners, Dudes and Diets by Emily Contois offers a unique opportunity for readers to deepen their understanding of the gendered nature of food in the historical context of the United States. In her book, Contois illustrates how the industry contributes to the construction of gender binaries to...

Review of Eat local, taste global: how ethnocultural food reaches our tables

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Contribuidor(es): Regan Zink | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.590

Eat Local, Taste Global: How Ethnocultural Food Reaches our Tables, by Glen C. Filson and Bamidele Adekunle, addresses the demand, availability, and production of ethnocultural vegetables in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). The book is centered around the three largest ethnic...

Jessica Fanzo, (2021). Can fixing dinner fix the planet? John Hopkins University Press, reviewed by Kathleen Kevany

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Contribuidor(es): Kathleen May Kevany | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.595

Tasks undertaken at home have influence around the world. Eating patterns that citizens adopt or support have diverse impacts on the planet. What we fix for dinner may well help to fix the planet when lower emission foods, reduced waste, enhanced distribution, and equality are emphasized....

Review of First we eat: Food sovereignty north of 60

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Contribuidor(es): Catherine Littlefield, Patricia Ballamingie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.575

Suzanne Crocker’s 2020 film First we eat documents her and her family’s efforts to spend an entire year eating only food that can be grown, gathered, and hunted around Dawson City, Yukon, in the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. Living 300 km south of the Arctic Circle, Crocker’s...

Hunger: How food shaped the course of the First World War

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Contribuidor(es): Laurie Wadsworth | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.579

Blom’s thesis for the book involved the impact food supply had on the outcome of WWI. Information presented focused on food security of civilians and armed forces across nations. Detailed coverage of food production, distribution, storage and consumption is a strength of the book. Blom...

A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contribuidor(es): Richard S. Bloomfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.644

Jo Handelsman’s text A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet outlines the threats to global soil health from a scientific perspective and provides an empirical foundation for many in the social sciences or humanities who advocate for more...

Slow cooked: An unexpected life in food politics

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contribuidor(es): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.640

This lively autobiography details Marion Nestle’s life-long engagement with food, particularly the tumultuous politics that inevitably accompany this central aspect of human life. As the founder of the interdiscipline of food studies, she describes her early life in academia, her work with the...

Review of Canadian literary fare by Nathalie Cooke, Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Contribuidor(es): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.669

This review looks at Canadian Literary Fare by Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer. The book gives an unconventional exploration of 'food voices' in Canadian literature. The authors examine the food narratives of celebrated Canadian writers, like Alice Munro, Eden Robinson, Fred...

Review of Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Contribuidor(es): Noura Nasser | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.656

The question of migration, land, labour, and food are intricately intertwined. In this book Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Farmworker in Canada is a living narrative that recounts life in St. Lucia, and gradually reveals the enmeshed connections of slavery, colonialism, and racial...

Review of Chocolate: How a New World commodity conquered Spanish literature by Erin Alice Cowling

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Contribuidor(es): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.648

Chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain and it is the main subject of Cowling’s book. Within, Cowling discusses the material importance that chocolate had in the New World and how it was assimilated into European society as a commercial, medicinal, and sexual...