Kathy Block

Kathy is an instructor with the Academic Learning Centre where she coordinated the Writing Tutor Program from 2008 to 2023. Before that, Kathy was the Director of the English Language Program and the ESL Teacher Certificate Program at The University of Winnipeg from 2001 to 2008. Her areas of interest are writing (personal and academic), writing pedagogy, assignment design, and program and curriculum development.

• Master of Education in Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Manitoba)
• Post-Baccalaureate in Education (University of Manitoba)
• Bachelor of Arts - Religion and English (University of Winnipeg)
• Interdisciplinary Studies: Emerging Technologies for Learning (Extended Education, University of Manitoba)
• Manitoba Diversity and Intercultural Training Program (Labour and Immigration Dept, Government of Manitoba)

Before retirement, he taught medieval literature and medievalism, Coleridge, children’s literature, “Inklings” C.S. Lewis et al., literary history, and literary and cultural theory.

• Block, K, Bermingham, C., & Garbati, J. (2018). Introduction: Selected Papers from the 2017 Canadian Writing Centres Association Conference. Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 28. https://journals.sfu.ca/dwr/index.php/dwr/article/view/725/671
• MacKendrick, K., Redden, J., & Block, K. (2014). Facilitated writing groups in a high-enrolment undergraduate course. Path to Pedagogy, 23(1), 25-28.
• Friesen, H., & Block, K. (2012). Creating Meaning: Advanced Reading and Writing (2^nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
  • American edition: 2008
  • 1st edition: 2000
• Block, K., & Hofer Friesen, H. (2010). Creating Meaning: Reading and Writing for the Canadian Classroom (Upper Intermediate). Oxford University Press.