What is "college-level" writing?

1. An essential question: what is "college-level" writing? / Patrick Sullivan

pt. I. High school perspectives. 2. Whistling in the dark / Merrill J. Davies

3. Am I a liar? The angst of a high school English teacher / Jeanette Jordan, with Karena K. Nelson...[et al.]

4. The Salem witch trials: voice(s) / Alfredo Celedon Lujan

5. The truth about high school English / Milka Mustenikova Mosley

pt. II. College perspectives. 6. Good enough writing: what is good enough writing, anyway? / Lynn Z. Bloom

7. Whose paper is this, anyway? Why most students don't embrace the writing they do for their writing classes / Michael Dubson

8. The boxing effect (an anti-essay) / Jeanne Gunner

9. What does the instructor want? The view from the Writing Center / Muriel Harris

10. It's not the high school teachers' fault: an alternative to the blame game / Peter Kittle

11. What is college writing for? / Ellen Andrews Knodt

12. Scripting writing across campuses: writing standards and student representations / Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Ellenmarie Cronin Wahlrab

13. From attitude to aptitude: assuming the stance of a college writer / Ronald F. Lunsford

14. Do you believe in magic? Collaboration and the demystification of research / Kathleen McCormick

15. A community college professor reflects on first-year composition / John Pekins

16. Defining by assessing / Edward M. White

17. Coming to terms: vocabulary as a means of defining first-year composition / Kathleen Blake Yancey, with Brian M. Morrison

pt. III. Student perspectives. 18. The great conversation (of the dining hall): one student's experience of college-level writing / Kimberly L. Nelson

19. Putting on the sunglasses: the argumentative thesis as the keystone to "good" college writing / Mike Quilligan

20. Bam / Amanda Winalski

pt. IV. Administrative perspectives. 21. College-level writing: a departmental perspective / James M. Gentile

22. A lot like us, but more so: listening to writing faculty across the curriculum / Susan E. Schorn

23. The recursive character of college writing / Chris Kearns

24. College writing, academic literacy, and the intellectual community: California dreams and cultural oppositions / Sheridan Blau

Appendix. Continuing the conversation: a dialogue with our contributors.