While "transfer" has become, in recent years, a subject of great research interest to our field, we still have much to learn about how we can best use this research knowledge to inform local efforts in program development. In this profile, we describe the foundations of the Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric and explain how…

Notes that writing across the curriculum programs have caused increasing discomfort about the role that English teachers can and should play in cross-curricular writing programs. Suggests an approach to freshman writing that can provide an effective model for a program that appropriately includes among its participants teachers of English. (HTH)

A difficult task facing college English departments is the creation of a freshman English program that is coherent and theoretically sound and which allows instructors a certain flexibility. Recently, the English department at Francis Marion College undertook a major revision of its freshman program with these goals in mind. The result was a…