Opening Up Contested Spaces: Interdisciplinary Writing at an HBCU

2025-07-10 17:50:10 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Shawn Miklaucic, Erin DiCesare | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.941

Inequalities in academic writing are not uncommon in higher education and become more complex when we look at the landscape of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which serve a large number of first-generation Black students. HBCUs serve minority students and provide them a...

Spacious Grammar: Agency and Intention in the Teaching of Research Writing

2025-07-10 17:50:10 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Katja Thieme | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.931

Standardized academic English is now understood to be rooted in histories and practices that are colonial, classist, nationalist, heteronormative, ableist, and sexist. Current teaching of academic English carries an ethos of making practices of research writing accessible to students from...

Learning to Unlearn the Teaching and Assessment of Academic Writing

2025-07-10 17:50:08 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Mya Poe | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.977

The last two years have raised important questions about how we can make the teaching of academic writing more equitable. In fact, the current moment invites us to “learn to unlearn” ways of teaching academic writing that perpetuate inequity. In this reflective article, I draw on decolonial...

Rethinking the Structures of Academic Writing in the Times of Exacerbated Inequity: An Introduction

2025-07-10 17:50:07 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Sean Zwagerman, Kim M. Mitchell | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.985

An introduction to the special issue for Rethinking the Structures of Academic Writing in the Times of Exacerbated Inequity. This paper presents a discussion of the inspiration for this special call for papers, an analysis of the genre presentation of the typical critical examination of...

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

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

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The JSTOR Daily Project: Building Genre Awareness through Heuristic Learning

2025-07-10 17:50:04 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Sarah Seeley | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1035

The article describes a publicly oriented writing assignment that can be adapted across disciplinary contexts. The assignment is linked to the JSTOR Daily publication with its tagline “where news meets its scholarly match.” Emulating the style of writing published in this open-access online...

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

2025-07-10 17:50:02 | Review | 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...

“Nobody who can’t write can get a degree here”: The story of a Canadian university writing test

2025-07-10 17:50:02 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Laura Dunbar | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.967

We see our study as falling into the category of writing program historiography known as microhistory: a narrative reconstruction that explores in thorough detail a particular time period in a specific writing program’s history while striving to remain sensitive to the socially constructed...

Examining AI Guidelines in Canadian Universities: Implications on Academic Integrity in Academic Writing

2025-07-10 17:49:57 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Faith Marcel, Phoebe Kang | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1051

Academic integrity is a crucial aspect of higher education that fosters intellectual honesty and upholds the principles of fairness and trustworthiness (Stoez & Eaton, 2020; Kang, 2022; Eaton, 2022). As the introduction and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies becomes...

Truth and Reconciliation through web design: Integrating Indigenist and Western approaches to teaching writing on a writing centre website

2025-07-10 17:49:55 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Theresa Bell, Caitlin Keenan, Jonathan Faerber | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1047

We explore relationality and decolonization within the context of our shared attempts to blend Indigenist (Wilson & Hughes, 2019) and Western approaches to information sharing on a redesigned writing centre website. To reflect and honour the importance of story-telling in Indigenous ways...

Introduction: Special Issue on Teaching Academic Writing in Canada

2025-07-10 17:49:54 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Sarah Seeley, Oguzhan Tekin, Tyler Evans-Tokaryk | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1105

This article introduces a Special Issue of Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie:Teaching Academic Writing in Canada. It contextualizes the research and pedagogical discussions contained herein, and it underlines how these contributions emphasize two major trends on the Canadian landscape of...

Exploring the Writing Process of Multilingual Postsecondary Students

2025-07-10 17:49:53 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Tessa E. Troughton | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1045

With an increasingly multilingual population made up of domestic and international students at Canadian universities, there is a knowledge gap about the writing practices of multilingual students and the needs of multilingual academic writers. In order to address this knowledge gap, more...

Doctoral Student Reading and Writing: Making Our Processes Visible

2025-07-10 17:49:51 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Melanie Doyle, Chantelle Caissie | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1055

Reading and writing are core components of what it means to be a doctoral student. Although reading and writing are known to be discursive, socialized practices, doctoral programs often focus on the output of these practices and position reading and writing as generic, universal skills....

Ctrl+AI+Learn: Contextualizing GenAI Policies for First-Year University Students

2025-07-10 17:49:51 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Talla Enaya, Sarah Seeley | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1119

This teaching report describes a workshop delivered at the University of Toronto Mississauga as a part of the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre’s (RGASC) Head Start program. The workshop was premised on two guiding ideas: (1) since the University of Toronto maintains flexible guidelines...

How do you wish to be cited? Citation practices and a scholarly community of care in trans studies research articles

2025-05-27 00:00:22 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Katja Thieme, Mary Ann S. Saunders | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.03.010

citation, trans studies, gender studies, research writing, academic writing, embodied knowledge, pragmatics

A Principled Uncertainty: Writing Studies Methods in Contexts of Indigeneity

2025-05-23 18:24:47 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Katja Thieme, Shurli Makmillen | https://doi.org/10.58680/ccc201728963

This article uses rhetorical genre theory to discuss methods for writing studies research in light of increasing participation of Indigenous scholars and students in disciplines throughout the academy. Like genres, research methods are embedded in systems of interaction that create subject...

A Principled Uncertainty: Writing Studies Methods in Contexts of Indigeneity

2025-04-11 19:46:03 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Katja Thieme, Shurli Makmillen | https://doi.org/10.58680/ccc201728963

This article uses rhetorical genre theory to discuss methods for writing studies research in light of increasing participation of Indigenous scholars and students in disciplines throughout the academy. Like genres, research methods are embedded in systems of interaction that create subject...

A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President

2024-11-06 00:25:06 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Katja Thieme | https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2022.2038510

Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such...