This 5-week workshop series integrates practical revision tools with antiracist and decolonial perspectives on writing. Drawing on Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Antiracist Writing Workshop, the program treats academic writing as a cultural practice shaped by power, rhetorical traditions, and linguistic diversity.
- Early sessions establish community agreements using a streamlined, instructor-guided process and introduce revision as meaning-making rather than error correction.
- Middle sessions explore global rhetorical structures, argument placement, and cultural rhetorical expectations.
- Final sessions address sentence-level clarity, local grammatical decisions, linguistic justice, and navigating standardized English with conscious choice.
Register for the Fall 2026 Program
When: October 1 to November 5 (no session during Reading Week) from 10:00am to 11:30am
Where: GSA Lounge (SLC 3216)
Register on Portal
Register for the Multilingual Writers' Studio
Program Structure
Each weekly session follows a three-part structure that ensures immediate transfer to your own writing:
1. Theory (short lecture + discussion)
-
rhetorical patterns across cultures
-
academic culture shock and linguistic bias
-
writing as identity and power
-
decolonial approaches to revision
2. Practice (guided activities + peer engagement)
-
reverse outlining
-
cohesion + transition mapping
-
argument flow analysis
-
code-meshing examples
-
feedback translation (adapt/resist/hybridize)
3. Application to Own Writing
-
participants apply the weekly strategy directly to a piece of their writing
-
guided reflection and revision planning
-
goal-setting from week to week