Folks, I've been following the conversation on linked courses with great interest. Here at Purdue I'm on the Introductory Writing Program Committee. We're just starting to make some tentative moves in the general direction of the sort of instruction you've been discussing. It occurred to me that it would be helpful for us if I were me to make a copy of your conversation and give it to the Chair of the IWP Committee. But I'd only do so with the approval of the participants. I'll wait a couple of days, and then if there are no dissenting voices on the list, I'll take this as tacit approval. Graham