Group Work Reflection
Submitted by: Lillian Ghorbani, Undergraduate Academic Assistant, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Jasmine Manango, Undergraduate Academic Assistant, Institute for Gender, Race, and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Materials: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Purpose This reflective activity invites students to examine how groupwork was framed, how roles and responsibilities were distributed, and how these factors […]
Collaborative Writing, Team Resilience, and Team Contracts
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca Carruthers den Hoed, Chair of WRDS, and Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Materials: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Context This activity is designed for a first year writing class that focuses on writing. The […]
Vaccaro, A., & Newman, B. (2022). Theoretical foundations for sense of belonging in college.
Throughout this chapter, Vaccaro and Newman provide a theoretical overview of some of the processes through which college students define and develop a sense of belonging. As they explain, “belonging as a developmental process is rooted in basic human needs to be safe and respected and to comfortably fit in as our authentic selves” (p. […]
Sterner, S. K., & Fisher, L. C. (2020). Expanding academic writing: A multilayered exploration of what it means to belong.
Sterner and Fisher challenge the rigid boundaries of academic writing by experimenting with a multilayered format—including a main text, endnotes, and side notes–that invites writers and readers into a collaborative process of meaning-making. Drawing on the work of Patti Lather, they argue that traditional academic discourse often excludes embodied, experiential, and culturally diverse ways of […]
Setting Students up for Textual Analysis
Submitted by Jennifer Walsh Marr, Lecturer, Vantage College, Faculty of Applied Science, School of Engineering, UBC Vancouver. Material: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Purpose This task is to ‘set students up for success’ for an IMRD research-writing course. It is purposefully introduced as a “thinking document” and directly […]