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Group Projects
Laura Taylor, Sheila Batacharya, and Ji-young Shin are evaluating the effectiveness of the ISP100 Writing for University and Beyond “Writing Check-In,” a writing diagnostic.
The project, titled “Investigating writing development and needs in university foundational writing courses from a corpus linguistics perspective: Bridging assessment and writing courses,” will allow them to measure writing development in ISP100 and ISP010 Basics of Writing in English (BoWiE) by examining 700 samples of the Writing Check-In.
Sarah Seeley, Oguzhan Tekin, and Tyler Evans-Tokaryk published a special issue of Discourse and Writing/Redactologie journal. “Teaching Academic Writing in Canada” is comprised of nine articles that emphasize Canadian approaches to academic writing that take up interrelated pedagogical circumstances and exigencies.
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Individual Projects
Oguzhan Tekin is conducting an ongoing research project on the role ISP100: Writing for University and Beyond plays in first-year student’s writing development and sense of belonging — which is usually associated with student retention.
Mark Blaauw-Hara is studying first-generation students’ transitions to university from a threshold-concept perspective.
Tyler Evans-Tokaryk has been editing First-Year Composition in Canada: Faculty and Student Perspectives on ‘Writing about Writing’, a 14-chapter collection that provides an overview of the formation and early years of ISUP.
Featuring essays by senior administrators, faculty, and students, this collection offers unprecedented insight into the process of creating robust writing support for undergraduate students at a mid-sized urban university in Canada. Coming soon from Parlor Press!