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Acknowledgements
Srividya Natarajan and Emily Pez
Introduction. Thinking About Textbooks: Background, Goals, and Influences
1. Planting the Seeds of Truth
Nistangekwe (Liz Akiwenzie)
2. Which Canada am I in?
Chen Chen 陈晨
3. How a First-Year University Writing Course for Indigenous Students Fostered Skills and Belonging
Loren Gaudet and Lydia Toorenburgh
4. Second Language Writing and Culture: Challenges from the Perspective of Learners of Academic Writing in English
Junbo Huang
5. Seek home / homesick
Tsigereda Getachew Eshete
6. A Migratory Bird on Her Way
Nora (Zhixin) Wu
7. How I Learned to Think Critically: A Reflection on Culture and Writing Identity
Srividya Natarajan
8. “It’s in the syllabus!”: Occlusion and Exclusion in Classroom Genres
Kristen Allen
9. Making Space for Inclusive Teaching: Two Ways of Decolonizing the Syllabus
Anmol Dutta and Maya Jaishankar
10. Villanelle for the Writing Centre: A Monologue
Lisa Kovac
11. Students’ Right to Their Own Writing Voice: How Three “Literacy Brokers” Can Support “Agentive Participation”
Christin Wright-Taylor
12. “The Positive Feelings That Writing Brings Me”: A Critical Language Awareness (CLA) Writing Assignment
Sheila Batacharya and Phuong Minh Tran
13. Interrogating Accentism in Academia: An International Graduate Student’s Reflection on Her Rights to Her Language
Mary N. Ndu
14. The Original Grammar Police: The 18th-Century Construction of “Proper” English
Amanda Paxton
15. The Languages Where I Am From: A Literacy Journey
Helen Lepp Friesen
16. Students’ Languages Matter: Translingualism and Critical Language Awareness
Janine Rose; Zhaozhe Wang; and Mark Blaauw-Hara
17. LEP, ESL, ELL, EL, or Multilingual? Resisting the Deficit Model
18. Beyond Punishment: Complicating the Story of Student Plagiarism
19. Understanding Unintentional Plagiarism from a De/colonizing Perspective
Cecile Badenhorst; Kelvin Quintyne; Abu Arif; Seitebaleng Susan Dintoe; Priscilla Tsuasam; and Constance Owusu
20. Case Analysis: University Students and Plagiarism
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
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
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