Acknowledgements

Introduction. Thinking About Textbooks: Background, Goals, and Influences

Srividya Natarajan and Emily Pez

Chapter 1. Planting the Seeds of Truth

Nistangekwe (Liz Akiwenzie)

Chapter 2. Which Canada am I in?

Chen Chen 陈晨

Chapter 3. How a First-Year University Writing Course for Indigenous Students Fostered Skills and Belonging

Loren Gaudet and Lydia Toorenburgh

Chapter 4. Second Language Writing and Culture: Challenges from the Perspective of Learners of Academic Writing in English

Junbo Huang

Chapter 5. Seek home / homesick

Tsigereda Getachew Eshete

Chapter 6. A Migratory Bird on Her Way

Nora (Zhixin) Wu

Chapter 7. How I Learned to Think Critically: A Reflection on Culture and Writing Identity

Srividya Natarajan

Chapter 8. “It’s in the syllabus!”: Occlusion and Exclusion in Classroom Genres

Kristen Allen

Chapter 9. Making Space for Inclusive Teaching: Two Ways of Decolonizing the Syllabus

Anmol Dutta and Maya Jaishankar

Chapter 10. Villanelle for the Writing Centre: A Monologue

Lisa Kovac

Chapter 11. Students’ Right to Their Own Writing Voice: How Three “Literacy Brokers” Can Support “Agentive Participation”

Christin Wright-Taylor

Chapter 12. “The Positive Feelings That Writing Brings Me”: A Critical Language Awareness (CLA) Writing Assignment

Sheila Batacharya and Phuong Minh Tran

Chapter 13. Interrogating Accentism in Academia: An International Graduate Student’s Reflection on Her Rights to Her Language

Mary N. Ndu

Chapter 14. The Original Grammar Police: The 18th-Century Construction of “Proper” English

Amanda Paxton

Chapter 15. The Languages Where I Am From: A Literacy Journey

Helen Lepp Friesen

Chapter 16. Students’ Languages Matter: Translingualism and Critical Language Awareness

Janine Rose, Zhaozhe Wang, and Mark Blaauw-Hara

Chapter 17. LEP, ESL, ELL, EL, or Multilingual? Resisting the Deficit Model

Srividya Natarajan

Chapter 18. Beyond Punishment: Complicating the Story of Student Plagiarism

Srividya Natarajan

Chapter 19. Understanding Unintentional Plagiarism from a De/colonizing Perspective

Cecile Badenhorst, Kelvin Quintyne, Abu Arif, Seitebaleng Susan Dintoe, Priscilla Tsuasam, and Constance Owusu

Chapter 20. Case Analysis: University Students and Plagiarism

Srividya Natarajan and Emily Pez

Chapter 21. Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought — and in an AI Age, Universities Need to Teach it More

Joel Heng Hartse and Taylor Morphett

Chapter 22. Case Analysis: Critiquing AI-Generated Essays in an Academic Writing Course

Roman Naghshi, John Drew, and Emily Pez

Appendix: Call for Papers for Thinking About Writing: An Open Educational Textbook for Multilingual International Students in First-Year University Writing Courses

Srividya Natarajan and Emily Pez