Well, um, I feel a little bit responsible for derailing things on this topic a bit . . . Mieke did have a serious question in there, somewhere. So let me say that I'd welcome hearing what the Writing Centre folk have to say, because I think those of us without writing centres and those of us without (and even those of us with writing cent_er_s or with Centres D'Ecriture or whatever they have up there in Quebec) will gain from hearing the discussion. Marcy (Oh, just out of curiosity: Jean, you said "north." Did you mean "nawth", by any chance?) Marcy Bauman Writing Program University of Michigan-Dearborn 4901 Evergreen Rd. Dearborn, MI 48128 email: [log in to unmask] Encoding: 83 TEXT