Margot Northey, Business consultant, Former dean of the School of Business, Queens University,Kristen Ferguson, Associate Professor, Nipissing University,Jon G. Bradley, Professor Emeritus, McGill University Margot Northey is a specialist in communications and the former dean of the School of Business at Queen's University. With the original Making Sense volume now in its eighth edition and seven specialized adaptations currently published, Northey's series of Making Sense texts has experienced tremendous success in the Canadian undergraduate market. Kristen Ferguson is an associate professor at the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University. She has published numerous journal articles in the Journal of Teaching and Learning, Canadian Journal of Education, and Reading Horizons, among others. She is the co-adaptor of OUP Canada's Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Children's Literature, 1Ce (2017). Jon G. Bradley is a retired associate professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University and past co-ordinator for the McGill Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing.

He has previously co-authored a non-education specific writing textbook, Writing for Ourselves/Writing for Others (Nelson, 1992).