Dear CASDW members, the deadline for submitting your work to this special section of CJSDW/R that will highlight work from the 2018 CWCA conference is coming up on October 19th. Please consider submitting your work! You do not have to have presented your work at CWCA 2018 to submit.

 

All the best,

Nadine Fladd

 

 

Are you interested in publishing your CWCA/ACCR conference presentation as an article? The theme of the 2018 conference, Politics and the Writing Centre: Inquiry, Knowledge, Dialogue and Action, inspired many timely conversations. In early 2019, the Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing / Rédactologie (CJSDW/R) will publish a special section based on presentations made at the CWCA/ACCR 2018 conference.  Whether you presented as part of a panel, in your own 20-minute presentation, or through a poster, CJSDRW/R guest editors Liv Marken and Nadine Fladd welcome your article submission.

 

Submissions considered for publication in the special section may focus on

• The state of writing centres in Canada
• Anti-oppressive educational practices
• Support for and involvement of marginalized students and practitioners in writing centre work, which may include analyses and reflections on safe and accessible spaces and locations (whether distance or face-to-face)
• Reconciliation, decolonization, and “Indigenization” in the writing centre
• Responding to the times: current-day political influences on writing centre work, social justice, and literacy building
• Non-cognitive skills: self-perception of ability, motivation, perseverance, self-control, metacognitive strategies, social competencies, resilience and coping, and creativity (Gutman and Schoon, 2013).
• Successful partnerships for change, which may include allying with and learning from colleagues in other disciplines and units
• Experiential learning, including service-learning, reflective practices, internships, volunteering, community-based research, and undergraduate research.

 

Articles may follow traditional norms of academic discourse, but we also encourage non-traditional submissions that are auto-ethnographical, reflexive, or narrative, along with interviews and snapshots of ongoing research and inquiries. We welcome statements of positionality. Work that was not presented at the 2018 CWCA conference, but which is closely related to the conference theme, will also be considered for publication.

Articles will follow the conventions of the CJSDW/R. Please see the CJSDW/R website for more information for prospective authors: http://journals.sfu.ca/cjsdw/index.php/cjsdw/announcement/view/6

 All articles must be formatted in Word and submitted via the CJSDW/R website (http://journals.sfu.ca/cjsdw/index.php/cjsdw/about/submissions) by October 19, 2018.

Articles will be screened by the special section guest editors and then submitted to a blind-review process.

Prospective authors may contact guest editor Liv Marken at [log in to unmask] with questions.

 

 

Nadine Fladd, PhD

Writing and Multimodal Communication Specialist (Graduate, Postdoctoral and Faculty Support)

Writing and Communication Centre

229E South Campus Hall (SCH)

University of Waterloo

519-888-4567 x. 37566

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https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/

  

 

I acknowledge that the Writing and Communication Centre is on the traditional territory of‎ the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.