Project on academic writing instruction awarded SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant

The Academic and Technical Writing Program is delighted to congratulate Sara Humphreys (PI; ATWP), Jason Collins (CI; ATWP), Loren Gaudet (CI; ATWP), and Erin Kelly (Coll; ENSH/ATWP), on their award of a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant.

Writing and Power: Positions and Policies for Social Change will confront and challenge the implicit norms of whiteness and colonization so often silently reproduced in the “hidden curriculum,” or lessons and habits that students are expected to gain as part of tacit learning, within the contexts of academic writing instruction.

The one-year project is aimed at developing effective, accessible and anti-oppressive forms of academic writing instruction and support for undergraduate and graduate students, and will involve four interactive workshops on post-secondary writing instruction. These workshops will address citational justice, belonging, identity, accessibility, and labour. The workshop outcomes will inform the creation of position statements and policy briefings designed for practitioners and administrators toward evolving their approaches to writing instruction and support.