“…As I became familiar with the variety of students in my classes, I recognized the range of experiences, identities, and affiliations they brought with them, as well as the personal curiosity, puzzles, and even troubles they brought with them that would be expressed through their writing and would drive their intellectual inquiries (Herrington & Curtis, 2000;Sternglass, 1997) and engage them in meaningful academic writing. Further, as I and others began to engage with international colleagues we became ever more aware of the particularity of our educational systems and how writing was situated within it (Bazerman & Baltar, 2010;Bazerman et al, 2012;Plane et al, 2016;Thaiss et al, 2012).…”