Multilingual Writers' Studio: Revision Strategies

Through structured activities, peer dialogue, and reflective writing, build strategies to negotiate academic expectations while sustaining your own voice and identity as a writer.

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. 
Thursdats Jan 15 to Feb 12th in SLC 3216
Thursday, January 22, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Thursday, January 29, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Thursday, February 5, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Thursday, February 12, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Multilingual Writers' Studio: Revision Strategies

Through structured activities, peer dialogue, and reflective writing, participants will build strategies to negotiate academic expectations while sustaining their own voices and identities as writers. 

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Registration for Winter 2026 is closed, but we hope to run this program again! Come back to this website to learn when we will open registration again.

If you missed this event but still want support and guidance as you navigate writing as a multilingual scholar, consider booking an appointment! Our staff and peer tutors will be happy to talk to you about the unique challenges you face and the decisions you can make.

Program Structure

Each session follows a three-part cycle 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