Abstract
Writing teachers are aware that they need much more information about what actually takes place with students' writing in colleges and universities, both to understand the complaints voiced about writing and to conceive what to do about them. Inquiry has focussed on writing courses themselves, yet it also seems important to know about students' larger school environment. After all, though other faculty cannot become writing teachers, perhaps their influence is as great as that which writing courses exert. What are the influences on, and performance of, writing in other disciplines?