Writing Help: Inclusive and Anti-Racist Language
Workshops
- Practicing Anti-Racist LanguageA workshop from USask Writing Centre tutor Hannah Tran. Anti-racist writing involves thinking about the perspectives, peoples, and groups that might be excluded and harmed through word choice. This workshop covers the current appropriate terminology surrounding Black Peoples, Indigenous Peoples, and People(s) of Colour (BIPOC), how to engage in anti-racist writing within different citation styles, and how different grammatical structures including tense, capitalization, pluralization, and possessives affect academic conversations about BIPOC.
- Avoiding Gender-Biased LanguageA workshop from USask Writing Centre tutors Carolina DeBarros and Juno Raine.
Language and word use is often biased toward dichotomous gender (male and female). Do you want to learn how to avoid gender bias in your written and spoken language? This workshop covers the use of nouns, pronouns, and titles, and teaches you how to navigate your professors' expectations.
Alternative and Inclusive Grading Practices
- Equity in Writing Assessment: Alternative Grading ApproachesFrom Boston University
- Life Sciences: Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)An article by Jeffrey Schinske and Kimberly Tanner, Department of Biology, Da Anza College
- Labour-Based Writing Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, 2nd EdA free book by Asao B. Inoue, University of Colorado.
- An Ecological Guide to Anti-Racist WritingA helpful, detailed infographic with sources.
Ableism
- Comprehensive Libguide on Ableism, including LanguageThis guide from UFV Includes examples and etiquette, language and microaggressions, ableism in higher education, and universal design of learning.
- Disability Language Style GuideA post from Nic Lindh on the National Center on Disability and Journalism provided by: https://ncdj.org
Guidelines for Inclusive Language
- APA Guidelines on Inclusive LanguageThe document draws from the guidelines for bias-free language in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
- The Diversity Style Guide"This guide . . . brings together definitions and information from more than two dozen style guides, journalism organizations and other resources."
Elements of Indigenous Style
- Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing for and About Indigenous Peoples"This guide features:
Twenty-two succinct style principles.
Advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge.
Terminology to use and to avoid.
Advice on specific editing issues, such as biased language, capitalization, and
quoting from historical sources and archives.
Case studies of projects that illustrate best practices."