SCC's Writing Across the Curriculum Quality Enhancement Plan

"Re-examining Writing Requirements Across the Curriculum: Assignments and Assumptions"
Hunter, Linda.

A basic list of assumptions included:

1) Once students learn the value of writing and revising, they will want to do it.
2) That emphasis on the process is more likely to produce the instructor's definition of good writing.
3) That revision is an important site for growth in writing and learning.
4) That students will improve at identifying the rhetorical situations and will be able to write in a variety of them.
5) That students' confidence and competence will grow with time and practice.
6) That students will come to find writing satisfying as they are successful (1).

Hunter's conclusion was that #1 was a definite "No"; #4 was a definite "Yes"; everything else was shade of "Maybe"(6).

The study consisted of following three students from developmental courses through a four-year degree and was largely based on questionnaires and interviews.