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

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Arran Stibbe. (2012). Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology and Reconnection with the Natural World. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press.

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Review | Contribuidor(es): Reviewed by Michelle Riedlinger | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.39

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Introduction

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Gloria Burrows | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.15

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Silent Partners: Student Course Evaluations and the Construction of Pedagogical Worlds

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Pia Marks | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.16

This pilot study examines the student evaluation of courses as a situated discourse practice. It seeks to understand how the practice informs student and instructor attitudes, practices, and identities by examining a particular case - the course evaluation instrument used in the Faculty of...

Structures narratives et congruence cognitive : cas du summary lead et de la pyramide inversée

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Bertrand Labasse | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.18

Le summary lead (5W+H) et la construction dite en pyramide inversée sont des préceptes dominants dans le champ de la rédaction. Leur validité est examinée ici dans une triple perspective, historique (quelle origine ?), didactique (quel apport en formation ?) et technique (quelle efficacité...

Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students' Antecedent Genre Knowledge

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Natasha Artemeva, Janna Fox | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.19

This article explores the role of students' prior, or antecedent, genre knowledge in relation to their developing disciplinary genre competence by drawing on an illustrative example of an engineering genre-competence assessment. The initial outcomes of this diagnostic assessment suggest that...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Teaching Undergraduate Researchers to Theorize and Practice Narrative Inquiry

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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.

Making Pharmaceutical Industry Rhetoric an Object of Study

2025-07-10 17:50:34 | Review | Contribuidor(es): Judy Segal | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.14

Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients, New York: Nation Books, 2005. 254 pages.Key words: rhetoric of science, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical marketing, condition branding, medicalization

Introduction

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

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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 | Contribuidor(es): Reviewed by Sarah Banting | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.38

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Borrowed Voices: Conversational Storytelling in Midwifery Healthcare Visits

2025-07-10 17:50:33 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

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 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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 | Contribuidor(es): 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...