About Boba
BA (Hon), Psychology – University of Western Ontario
PhD, Education Studies – University of Western Ontario
Dr. Boba Samuels is the Director of the Health Sciences Writing Centre and an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Education, specifically Writing Studies. In addition to teaching academic writing, Dr. Samuels conducts research on university writing, including disciplinary writing, high stakes genres such as grants and personal statements, and currently, the impact of generative AI on writing.
Writing in the disciplines
Writing pedagogy
Rhetorical genre studies
Dickson, B.A., Woolford, D.G., Samuels, B., & Kotsopoulos, D. (2025). Active learning in post-secondary statistics and data sciences teaching: Moments or alternative models. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
Cournoyea, M., Samuels, B., & Calloway, D. (2024). Inked: Graduate writing groups as writing centre pedagogy. Special Issue: Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie 34: 82-92. View of Inked: Graduate Writing Groups as Writing Centre Pedagogy (sfu.ca).
Garbati, J. F., & Samuels, B.M. (2016). Narrative autoethnographies: Analyzing stories from Canadian academic writing instructors. Studia Edukacyjne [Educational Studies], NR 38, 331-346.
Garbati, J. F., & Samuels, B.M. (2013). Publishing in educational research journals: Are graduate students participating? Journal of Scholarly Publishing (July), 44 (4), 355-372.
Garbati, J., McDonald, K., Meaning, L., Samuels, B.M, Scurr,C. (2015).Writing assignments and instruction at Ontario’s publicly funded universities: A view from three disciplines. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.
Garbati, J. F., & Samuels, B.M. (2013). Publishing in educational research journals: Are graduate students participating? Journal of Scholarly Publishing (July), 44 (4), 355-372.
Samuels, B.M., McDonald, K., & Misser, E. (2013). Writing instruction using an online Assignment Planner. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.
Graves, R., Hyland, T. & Samuels, B.M. (2010). Syllabi analysis: Undergraduate writing assignments at one Canadian university. Written Communication 27(3), 293-317.
President 2016-17, Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW)
Canadian Writing Centers Association (CWCA)
Canadian Society for the Study of Language and Learning