Boba Samuels

Boba Samuels, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Director of Health Sciences Writing Centre

  • Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
  • Director, Health Sciences Writing Centre
Health Sciences Writing Centre
55 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2W6

About Boba

Academic Training

BA (Hon), Psychology – University of Western Ontario

PhD,  Education Studies – University of Western Ontario

Research Interests

Writing in the disciplines

Writing pedagogy

Rhetorical genre studies

Selected Publications

Dickson, B.A., Woolford, D.G., Samuels, B., & Kotsopoulos, D. (2024, accepted). 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. http://podstedu-czasopismo.home.amu.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/38.pdf 

*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. https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.44-4-004 

Garbati, J., McDonald, K., Meaning, L., Samuels, B., 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. www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/WLU_Writing_Assignments_and_Instruction_ENG.pdf

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.  www.heqco.ca/en-CA/Research/Research%20Publications/Pages/Home.aspx

Graves, R., Hyland, T. & Samuels, B.M. (2010).  Syllabi analysis:  Undergraduate writing assignments at one Canadian university. Written Communication 27(3), 293-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088310371635 

Professional Memberships

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