In the 1960s, higher education become more accessible to historically excluded groups, such as women, minorities, and the working class, forever changing the culture and population of college campuses. As a result of these changes, in 1974 the “Studen . . .

In recent years, issues of academic honesty, including student plagiarism, have become hot topics among university faculty. Many universities are trying various techniques and tools such as plagiarism-detection software in order to curtail what some d . . .

In 1976 the California State University system mandated that every campus certify the writing skills of its graduates by requiring students to meet a Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR). For nearly three decades California State Universit . . .

Students across the curriculum need opportunities to develop writing by sharing written drafts with peers. The problem is what principles must be used when conducting peer response workshops that enable students to build writing confidence and reflect . . .

California State University, Sacramento students’ writing processes on the Writing Placement for Juniors (WPJ) exams and 109W/109M portfolios were investigated as related to how many times students engaged in a particular step the in writing processes . . .

The fundamental belief expressed in this project is that diversity is necessary for learning and that often mechanisms that assess and track students work to erase diverse perspectives from classroom populations. Such homogenizing practices make the e . . .

Practitioners use peer response as a tool in the collaborative composition classroom for a variety of reasons. A key component of the peer response group is to teach students about revising and re-seeing their work through a varied audience. There are . . .

In their junior year at California State University Sacramento (CSUS), students are asked to engage in a Directed Self Placement (DSP) moment. In that moment, students decide whether they will take a timed writing test or enroll in a Writing In the Di . . .

Both the content and form of this project focus on personal and creative forms of writing within composition studies. Although the author does not argue that personal, creative writing assignments will prove desirable or effective for all writing teac . . .

This research study examines how listening to Mozart affected (in terms of anxiety and concentration) first year college writing students when initiating and during writing for the duration of a five minute in-class free-write. Data was collected from . . .