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

2025-07-10 17:50:18 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Genres in the Public Domain: Genre Uptakes, Responses, and Responsibility

2025-07-10 17:50:02 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Stephen Dadugblor | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.999

This article analyzes a rhetorical genre ecology emerging in the aftermath of a natural disaster in Ghana. Drawing on news articles and opinion pieces, a presidential speech, a government post-disaster assessment summary, and a World Bank Group action report, I argue that in their operation...

Genres Inside Genres. A Short Theory of Embedded Genre

2025-07-10 17:50:16 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Sune Auken | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.883

The concept of the embedded genre is of crucial importance if we want to understand the way genres interact, within any given text, within any given genre, and in forming larger genre patterns. By discussing a tentative distinction between three kinds of embedding, “recontextualized embedding”...

George Amabile on War, Trauma, the Creative Process, and His Latest Collection Martial Music

Article | Contribuidor(es): Liana Cusmano

Liana Cusmano’s interview with poet George Amabile focuses on his prize-winning 2018 collection Martial Music and the art of writing in general. He offers insights on the poetic process, how to research and produce a collection of poems. Amabile’s poetry is inspired by what he has experienced or...

George Buchanan’s Unpublished Poems

Article | Contribuidor(es): Philip Ford

Dans un article important paru dans The Library en 1969, et intitulé « George Buchanan’s Latin Poems from Script to Print », Ian McFarlane a établi les bases d’une éventuelle édition critique des poèmes de l’humaniste écossais. Enfouis dans les différents manuscrits contenant ses œuvres,...

George Thomason’s Newsbooks

Article | Contribuidor(es): Yann Ciarán Ryan

This is a review of George Thomason's Newsbooks.

Gerson et Pétrarque: humanisme et l’idée nationale

Article | Contribuidor(es): Yelena Mazour-Matusevich

Gerson never met Petrarch in person. However, a comparative study of these authors allows us to evaluate the crucial role of national pride in revealing the initial difference between early French and Italian forms of humanism. While the Italians, oppressed by Parisian intellectual prestige, were...

Gerusalemme liberata e Controriforma

Article | Contribuidor(es): Giuseppe Scavizzi

Gesture in Painting: Problems in Semiology

Article | Contribuidor(es): André Chastel

Gesture in the Work of Rabelais

Article | Contribuidor(es): Eva Kushner

Getting Stuck, Writing Badly, and Other Curious Impressions: Doctoral Writing and Imposter Feelings

2024-11-16 00:45:50 | Book chapter | Contribuidor(es): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2_16

doctoral writing, imposter syndrome, rhetorical writing and genre studies

Getting to the core of the matter: The rise and fall of the Nova Scotia apple industry, 1862-1980

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Anika Roberts-Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.165

This article will apply food regime theory to an examination of the rise and fall of the apple industry in Nova Scotia between 1862 and 1980. From the 1860s until World War II, apples were a booming cross-Atlantic export business that continued the colonial bonds to Britain. But after the war,...

GFG - "Greening" global food governance

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Jessica Duncan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.104

It has been argued that there are two broad criteria to judge humanity’s success in feeding itself: “(i) the proportion of people whose access to basic nutritional requirements is secure; and (ii) the extent to which global food production is sustainable” (Daily et al., 1998, p. 1291)....

GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.81

There have been multiple and significant changes in the global food landscape when it comes to governance. The 2008 Global Food Crisis heightened attention to and action for food security; this is reflected in the expanding food security agenda across the United Nations system, the World Bank...

GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis: Lessons from the United Nations Committee on World Food Security

2025-03-19 22:03:55 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Nora McKeon | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.134

The increasingly destructive impacts that today’s global food system visits upon local food provision, biodiversity, and the environment have been highlighted by a number of contributors in this special issue. Viewed through a global governance lens, public responsibility has been...

GFG - SYNTHESIS - Thinking forward in global food governance

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Michelle Metzger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.120

Global food governance is ever evolving as political leaders become increasingly aware of the complexity and dynamic nature of managing the global food system in a sustainable manner. Calls for reform of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the early 2000s...

GFT - Food fight: What the debate about food security means at the WTO

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Gawain Kripke | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.118

Although still experiencing significant levels of hunger and malnutrition, India has recently taken historic measures to improve food security, namely through the expansion of domestic food assistance programs. Under the Obama Administration, the U.S. has prioritized improving global food...

GFT - Food security and international trade: Risk, trust and rules

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Sophia Murphy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.133

The multilateral trade system today shapes the economy of almost every country of the world. The World Trade Organization (WTO) now has 160 members, and even the non-members must deal with the rules the WTO has established when they trade. The system is ubiquitous yet faces serious challenges....

GFT - Global food trade

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.80

Few issues animate debate about the global food system as much as the role of international trade and, in particular, that of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Indeed, the WTO is a subject that polarizes debate among food scholars and activists. Some scholars see the WTO as imperfect but...

GFT - Regulating food-based agrofuels: The prospects and challenges of international trade rules

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.82

This article considers the potential for strategic and selective use of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules to regulate, and potentially curb, the expansion of food-based agrofuels. Since 2008, a global agrofuel complex has emerged that is characterized by government-led mandates and...