Dr. Natasha Artemeva, Dr. Janna Fox, and past ALDS grad John Haggerty (MA/11) are recipients of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW) Annual Research Award 2017 for their book chapter entitled “Mitigating risk: The impact of a diagnostic assessment procedure on the first-year experience in engineering.”
According to the selection committee:
“For those who teach in an engineering program, this work is helpful in understanding how to fix problematic retention rates—the article may hence really change the course of university for these students in Canada. But this portion of the larger study also provides solid support for advances in writing studies beyond the engineering sector in which it was conducted: it does so by emphasizing the efficacy of a disciplinary, rather than generic assessment, and embedding it within the courses.”
Haggerty is currently a doctoral candidate in Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia.