Writing & power: Positions and policies for social change

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dc.contributor.authorHumphreys, Sara
dc.contributor.authorGaudet, Loren
dc.contributor.authorCollins, Jason
dc.contributor.authorBoldt, Natalie
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-20T18:16:09Z
dc.date.available2024-12-20T18:16:09Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractAcademia – including universities, colleges, and funding agencies – privilege and value a certain meta genre, or overarching kind, of writing above all others: academic writing. Yet, academic writing is all too often part of the "hidden curriculum" or lessons and habits that students gain as part of tacit learning, role modeling, and internalizing (sometimes damaging) assumptions. Moreover, because this learning is often occluded, it can reproduce assumptions about "good" writing that are based on normalized whiteness and colonial frameworks. Academic writing professionals and administrators need accessible position statements, policy briefings, and resources to draw from so that they can create equitable, inclusive, and anti-oppressive academic writing praxes. To meet these goals, our team held a series of virtual workshops in the fall of 2024 that invited keynote interviewees who are empowering students from marginalized and colonized populations to express their ways of knowing in academic contexts. In total, we interviewed 16 experts working in various areas of anti-oppressive academic writing praxis and over 40 workshop participants shared how they are challenging and dismantling systems of oppression often entrenched in academic writing. In addition to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, we are indebted to the workshop participants, interviewees, the Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre (IDHHC), Danica Paul (Knowledge Keeper and Ləkʷəŋən youth from the Songhees Nation) – who provided land acknowledgment and welcome for all the workshops – the technical support workers, Faculty of Humanities (especially the Research Office), and cleaning staff at the University of Victoria for making these workshops, and therefore this project, possible.
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dc.description.sponsorshipWriting & Power: Position and Policies for Social Change is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in partnership with Canadian Heritage. Rédaction et Pouvoir: Positions et Politiques pour le Changement Social est financé par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines en partenariat avec Patrimoine canadien.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/20876
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleWriting & power: Positions and policies for social change
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