Writing across the University of Alberta (WAUA) (Journal)
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Transitioning from Letter Grades to Pass/Fail System: The Effect on Post-secondary Students and their Academic Performances
Get PDFThis research paper, written by Navdeep Badhan in WRS 101, compares two grading systems in a post-secondary institution. Written from a student\u27s perspective, the paper engages in an informative and interesting way with traditional and non-traditional ways of assessing student work, and it argues that one system is more favourable than the other in an academic setting
Meme Based on Samael\u27s Song "Slavocracy"
No full textKim Jashua Rojas Dacutanan created this meme in WRS 206, for an assignment that called for students to react to a song through a visual representation. This student chose a song called “Slavocracy” by the Swedish band Samael. The band sings about the evils of a society that is ruled primarily through slavocracy, and Kim responded to this system with a meme that shows his desire to escape from the stressful life of exploitation into a forest to live free and in peace. The meme cleverly contrasts the song’s depiction of a gray, mundane existence with lush and vibrant colours of nature
Reading as a Writer: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Get PDFWritten for WRS 102, Valeriya Sytnik’s reflective essay explores what it means to read like a writer. Valeriya argues for a three-part approach to learning to write from the texts that we read. She suggests that we balance our intuition and conscious knowledge about writing as we learn from the texts we read. This balancing act continues as we try to wrestle our ideasinto written form. At this stage of the writing process, we must negotiate the tension between our perceptions and reflections. Finally, Valeriya suggests that we must learn from example texts and practice what they teach us. This essay is an excellent example of using research sources to support a unique and compelling argument
Transforming Views on Rhetorical Grammar
Get PDFYingdi Ma wrote this paper for WRS 206. In this particular class, students were able to choose their own genre and topic for a final project. Alexandra chose to write a change-in-thinking type of story, in which she analyzed how she used to understand and think about grammar and how the course contributed to her change in thinking about grammar not only as a set of rules but also as a system of communication
Ink and Resistance
Get PDFAyah Altahouni’s piece explores the role of writing for communities in exile. She imagines a fictional conversation between an exiled Palestinian student and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Set in Paris in 1988, this text examines how writers and poets can preserve cultures and identities facing diaspora and war. This piece was written in WRS 101 for an assignment that asked students to imagine a conversation with a famous writer
Peer Tutoring Beyond Borders
Get PDFIn WRS 301, Zuairia Shahrin had an a-ha moment while learning about cognitive biases. This moment resulted in Zuairia’s now long-standing interest in writing across cultures, diversity, and equity, especially in terms of how cognitive biases might afect peer tutoring. Her paper addresses the struggles EAL (English as Additional Language) writers face and brings attention to peer-tutoring practices that emphasize inclusive, diverse and bias-free tutoring practices
Mountain of Writing
Get PDFThis writing tells a story of how a giant living in Alberta gradually discovered what makes good writing
Writing is an Interactive Process.
Get PDFWriting is the interaction between an individual\u27s life and the objective world. Nowadays, with the Internet and mobile phones, people write all the time, but they are getting away from actual writing. Writing isn\u27t just random posts on Twitter or Instagram that follow your mood, but a process that needs to interact with life
The Journey from a Single Sentence to a Well-Written Essay
Get PDFThe article is about my experience with writing in a Swahili, a language that I knew nothing about before moving to Kenya from South Sudan. 
Letter to the instructor
Get PDFIn Junhui Li’s WRS 101 Exploring Writing class, students were invited to write an inkshed addressed to the instructor in which they could talk about how their writing has changed a bit over the term, what surprised them about the course, classmates or instructor, and what writing strategies they found helpful or useful. They were also invited to include an interesting detail about their hobbies, likes or dislikes. Junhui wrote the following letter to his instructor