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1. Benefits and Challenges of Zoom Tutoring during the Covid-19 Pandemic

   10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Cassidy Rempel, Helen Lepp Friesen

   This study aimed to evaluate the benefits and challenges of remote/online tutoring using Zoom software/platform at a Canadian university’s Writing Centre during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020/21. In...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8068/?v=1

2. Academic Literacies in a South African Writing Centre: Student Perspectives on Established Practices

   10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Tyler Evans-Tokaryk, Kabinga Jack Shabanza

   Through a case study conducted in 2014 and 2015 at the University of X in South Africa, the researchers collected focus group and survey data to develop a better understanding of the kinds of...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8035/?v=1

3. New Tropes for Old: Changing the Conversation in Canadian Writing Centres

   10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Srividya Natarajan

   Many of the celebrated and generative tropes that defined the work and self-image of American writing centres—tropes like Stephen North’s “fix-it shop in the basement,” Andrea Lunsford’s “Burkean...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8017/?v=1

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

   10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Theresa Bell, Caitlin Keenan, Jonathan Faerber

   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...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8013/?v=1