The most current thinking about this issue I know of is in Roger and Heather Graves' forthcoming book. > Tania S. Smith does a good job at explaining some of > the intricacies at work in "Recent Trends in Writing > Instruction and Composition Studies in Canadian Universities" > http://www.stthomasu.ca/inkshed/cdncomp.htm (her works cited > offers some rich sources as well)--still, that work is dated > 1999. I'm not sure that anything more recent has been/is > being done, but I would love to hear about it on the list, if > you writers are out there. Some of its contents are already available one way or another -- Tania Smith's work, for instance. And my "afterword" about the Canadian penchant for putting writing under the curriculum is available in draft form on my Web site: http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/pubs.htm -- Russ St. Thomas University http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-