ABSTRACT
This chapter is the author's attempt to set down, as frankly as possible, some of the lessons he have learned from overseeing a writing-across-the-curriculum program and conducting faculty workshops for the past six years. The people attempted from the beginning to influence faculty first-through the writing workshops-and students second-through attending classes taught by faculty who had attended the workshops. They began their program in 1977, based primarily on the ideas of James Britton and his colleagues, to introduce faculty from all disciplines to a variety of ideas and strategies for using more writing in whatever courses they teach. Neither Art Young nor the author entered the project with the idea of writing a book, nor could the people have predicted that the department, as it was formulated in 1977 when they began the project, could author a book.
