Courses at the university that are dedicated to teach academic writing at the undergraduate or postgraduate level are a nascent phenomenon in India. Typically, universities in India have some form of language support centres that aim to help students whose writing is diagnosed to suffer from poor English as is evident from the grammatical errors, unclear syntax and inadequate vocabulary in their writing. Needless to say that even if these usually understaffed and overburdened centres are able to fulfill their mandate, it does not make a huge dent on the overall quality of academic writing that students produce even if the writing is grammatically improved. In this context, to have dedicated writing courses taught not by language experts but discipline experts is an announcement of a paradigm shift from how Indian higher education has and largely continues to imagine the work of supporting writing. A handful of private universities are setting up writing centres and making writing courses a part of the curriculum, and some of the public universities, albeit only the more prominent ones, are beginning to engage visiting faculty to teach full semester writing courses. For most others, the model that is becoming popular is one of organizing short-term workshops on different aspects of academic writing that could be a day or week long depending on the resources that the university can spare.