PhD candidate Matthew Falconer had a busy summer, but a good one, as he puts it. He was awarded OGS for 2017-2018. He was invited to Laurentian University for a day and a half session on April 16-17 and gave talks and ran a workshop to help grad students and supervisors think about supporting graduate writers and thesis/dissertation writing. He also attended Congress in May, which was in Regina SK. He presented the first take on his doctoral research for the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW) in a paper titled “Writing science advice for government policymakers: A textography”. With Graham Smart, he finished a chapter for an upcoming volume titled “Genre and the climate debate” that will be published through the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Genre Research. Their paper is titled “The uptake and recontextualization of climate-change science within ‘denialist’ cultural communities” and is in peer-review with the rest of the contributions (including chapters from Amy Devitt and Charles Bazerman, among others).