The 2019 Annual Award for Best Dissertation submitted in 2018 goes to Sarah Whyte (Waterloo, 2018) for her dissertation, The Rhetorical Life of Surgical Checklists: A Burkean Analysis with Implications for Knowledge Translation. 

The 2019 Annual Award for Best Article or Chapter published in 2018 by a member of CASDW goes to James Corcoran, Antoinette Gagné, and Megan McIntosh for “A conversation about ‘editing’ plurilingual scholars’ thesis writing” in Canadian Journal for the Study of Discourse and Writing 28 (2018).

Honourable Mention was awarded to Katja Thieme and Mary Ann S. Saunders for “How do you wish to be cited? Citation practices and a scholarly community of care in trans studies” in Journal of English for Academic Purposes 32 (2018).

Congratulations to all the winners!

The University of Waterloo Writing and Communication Centre is seeking an experienced writing centre tutor to fill an 18-month contract role to begin immediately. The role will be posted until filled. Please submit applications as soon as possible. This is a full-time position (35 hours/week) providing individual and small-group appointments (grad and undergrad), facilitating workshops, collaborating with course instructors, and working with a team of communication specialists to deliver various programs and services on campus. Experience with a range of disciplines, genres, and academic and professional documents is an asset in this role.

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English is planning their 2020 conference, which will be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted by Western University in London, Ontario, from May 30-June 5, 2020. The Call for Panels can be found here. The deadline to submit a Member-Organized or Joint-Sponsored panel proposal is September 1, 2019. The CFPs for accepted panels will be publicized to the ACCUTE membership in late September with a deadline for submissions of November 15, 2019.

In 2020, the Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie (CJSDW/R) will publish a special section based on presentations made at the Canadian Writing Centres Association/L’Association canadienne des centres de rédaction (CWCA/ACCR) 2019 conference. Guest editors Liv Marken and Nadine Fladd welcome article submissions from all research panel, workshop, roundtable, or Ideas Exchange presenters. Work that was not presented at the 2019 CWCA/ACCR conference, but which is closely related to the conference theme, will also be considered for publication.

The theme of CWCA/ACCR 2019 conference—the writing centre multiverse—inspired many conversations around how writing centres “navigate, respond to, and negotiate the “multiverse” we all inhabit—in our spaces, our practices, and our research.”

More information can be found here.

Deadline: August 30, 2019

Theme: Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum and E-Learning

Dates: October 30-31, 2019

Panel proposals and paper abstracts are invited on best practices in teaching with a focus on technologies and e-learning. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit papers. Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 250 words. Brief bios of 175 words are required. Electronic submissions are requested. Presentations should be limited to 15 minutes. Panels are limited to four (4) presenters per panel.

Papers and panels are solicited on:

• Teaching and learning in the digital age
• All aspects of studying and teaching literature (including World Literature and travel literature)
• Creative writing/ Creative writing pedagogy
• Composition pedagogy
• Teaching foreign languages

Send all submissions here.

Receipt deadline: September 14, 2019

The registration fee for the conference is $35 for faculty members. The fee is waived for undergraduate and graduate students.