Discusses the development of Guilford College's writing guide. Discusses benefits of the guide: it offers important information and resources; it promotes a common language about writing; it articulates common standards; and it provides the entire college with ownership of the writing enterprise. (RS)

Overviews the 20-year history of the English Composition Board at the University of Michigan, an independent unit directed by a policy board until it was effectively ended by being placed under the English Department in 1997. Describes its early cooperative and later collaborative approach to management style. Argues efforts to institutionalize…