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Developing disciplinary discourse in a first-year engineering course: The DELNA initiative
10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Faye D'Silva, Penny Kinnear
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...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8085/?v=1
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Speaking Against Inequity in the Writing Classroom: Challenging the Performance Paradigm for Undergraduate Oral Presentations
10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Moberley Luger, Craig Stensrud
Many existing scholarly speaking pedagogies continue to think of oral presentations as performances for an audience rather than dialogic exchanges of research. Such approaches, prominent in...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8053/?v=1
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Rethinking the Structures of Academic Writing in the Times of Exacerbated Inequity: An Introduction
10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Sean Zwagerman, Kim M. Mitchell
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...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8044/?v=1
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Genres in the Public Domain: Genre Uptakes, Responses, and Responsibility
10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Stephen Dadugblor
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...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8024/?v=1
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Beyond the word count: Using assignment sheets to promote genre awareness
10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Allen
Despite the best efforts of their instructors, first-year students often misinterpret or even ignore assignment sheets, leading to unmet learning outcomes and demoralising marks. Like academic...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8022/?v=1
