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CASLL folks, At Ohio State I am enrolled in Andrea Lunsford's graduate comp course and I have decided to do a term project on the current issues in Canadian composition. You, only you, can help me at this distance. I would like to use e-mail discussion on this listserv to quote or refer to in my essay. What I need is some material to bring us up-to-date from Roger Graves' (Inkshed 1994) excellent book on the subject. (By the way, I am also looking for more recent published material on this, and ref.s to other non-listserv people I should ask.) So those of you who are in-the-know, and those willing to conjecture: what do you think are the recent trends in writing instruction, the political / economic / pedagogical battles, the hopes of writing instructors and visions writing program administrators, grad students in the field, and tutors? I have a sense that WAC is important (seeing our previous discussion on this listserv on Canadian university 'traditions' in writing instruction, which I will likely use too). But it might not be the same type of WAC all over the country. I'm also interested in what role English and Education departments have, or other departments such as General studies at U of Calgary. I expect ESL to be an important issue here, too. What kinds of courses? methods? theories? Please tell me if you'd rather not be quoted and made (in)famous in my essay which I hope will be published. (As Russ pointed out to me, it's already "published" on the listserv and listserv archives.) In the meantime this discussion will probably be enlightening to all on the listserv. I hope I've worded this well... I agonized over it before sending it out, confirming the idea with Russ and A. Pare (thanks). Maybe it'll also convince you to respond if I tell you I'm a B.A. and M.A. from the U of Alberta (Hi, Lahoucine Ouzgane!!) and wish to return to Canada to make myself useful with my OSU Rhet/comp degree. And I will have my essay done before the Inkshed conference, which I plan to attend. So, please join in with your 2 cents. Tania Smith