Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at 8pm (EST).
Title: Writing about Writing in Canada: First-Year Writing at the University of Toronto Mississauga
Overview
This presentation provides an overview of Writing about Writing at the University of Toronto Mississauga and its place in Canadian writing studies. We will focus on ISP100, the university’s first-year writing course that founded in 2020. We will begin with the course’s shared design and curriculum development over the past six years. Each presenter will then show how that design is enacted differently across the sections we teach, tracing how our backgrounds and teaching philosophies shape our approaches. We conclude with our study of the course’s impact on learners based on recent studies completed as part of our curriculum assessment.
Biographies of the speakers:
Christopher Eaton
Christopher Eaton is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, where he co-directs the Generative AI Literacies Lab. His research focuses primarily on emerging technologies in education, and he is the editor of Multimodal Knowledge Making for a Digital World: Pedagogical Design, Accessibility, and Generative AI (forthcoming from University of Toronto Press).
Mustafa Siddiqui
Mustafa Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, University of Toronto Mississauga. His academic interests include writing studies and TESOL. Before moving to Canada, he taught at universities in India and Saudi Arabia, and his research explores ways to make university classes more engaging and enjoyable.
Theo Oguzhan Tekin
Theo Oguzhan Tekin is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of First-Year Student Writing at UTM. His research interests include sociolinguistics, writing for social change, critical language awareness, and international students’ experiences in higher education. His work has appeared in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology and Canadian Modern Language Review.
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