Developed in anticipation of the dramatic increases in enrollment on UC campuses, UCWrite provides the tools to increase the effectiveness of writing instruction across the system. Also, the UCWrite website describes writing requirements, courses, and special programs, campus by campus.

"The site is intended to explain the expectations of university-level writing to a much broader audience than our writing programs currently reach," says Jim Donelan of the UCSB Writing Program. "We hope to make it easier for secondary school teachers to prepare their students for college composition and to allow prospective students to compare writing courses and requirements on the different campuses."

Through UCWrite, writing instructors can participate in an online discussion group on writing pedagogy, composition theory, research in progress, or jobs in rhetoric/composition. The site houses a growing cache of teaching materials that typify the kinds of assignments and course design valued on the UC campuses and disseminates research by UC faculty on the teaching of writing and, more generally, in rhetoric and composition studies.

UCWrite was conceived by Elizabeth Abrams of UC Santa Cruz and designed by a group of lecturers representing several UC writing programs.

For more information, contact Jim Donelan at donelan@writing.ucsb.edu .