Self-Location Reflection
Submitted by Lillian Ghorbani, Undergraduate Academic Assistant, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, UBC Vancouver. Materials: Attribution and Use: This use case is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Purpose Emphasizes who we are and how our lived experiences, values, identities, and social contexts shape how we interpret, contribute to, and engage with academic work. This reflective practice recognizes students as knowledge holders and […]
Citation Justice
Submitted by Dr. Laila Ferreira, 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 worksheet and related classroom activities are part of a scaffolded approach to citation in a required first-year scholarly writing and […]
Thieme, K., & Makmillen, S. (2017). A principled uncertainty: Writing studies methods in contexts of Indigeneity.
In this piece, Katja Thieme and Shurli Makmillen apply rhetorical genre theory to conceptualize method as a cultural tool and explore the role of method for writing studies research in Indigenous contexts. They argue that just as genres are shaped by “shared, recurring goals and exigences,” research methods are not neutral tools but “cultural tools […]
Adler-Kassner, L. (2019). Designing for ‘more’: Writing’s knowledge and epistemologically inclusive teaching.
As Linda Adler-Kassner explains, knowledge-making is “an exchange between: (1) the epistemologies and identities of learners, and (2) the contexts in which learning takes place” (p. 36). Although Adler-Kassner does not explicitly define how she is using the term epistemology in her article, her usage aligns with the general understanding of epistemology as the often […]
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 […]