Anyone who has ever graded a term paper knows that students seem to
forget most everything they learned in freshman composition class
when it comes time to write an analytical essay in another course.
“Writing across the curriculum” has become almost a mantra that
schools have adopted to counter this problem. Yet it is unclear
exactly what “writing across the curriculum” means, and it is more
uncertain how to implement the concept. This paper grows out of an
effort to put “writing across the curriculum” into practice through
collaborative teaching at Hampden-Sydney College.