Collaborative Teaching, Collaborative Learning: Expanding Communities of Writing Teachers and Students Cross Institutional Boundaries "The collaborative nature of the Portfolio Composition Program at Middle Tennessee State University gave birth, in part, to a cross-institutional writing project that Maria Clayton, Ray Legg, Julie Lumpkins, and Ayne Cantrell undertook as first-semester writing teachers at three institutions of higher learning in Tennessee in the fall semester of 2000: Bryan College, Columbia State Community College, and  Middle Tennessee State University."		by Maria Clayton, Ayne Cantrell, Ray Legg, Julie Lumpkins
		Research Writing in First-Year Composition and Across Disciplines: Assignments, Attitudes, and Student Performance "In this web, we discuss two studies that explore two related questions about research writing: 1) when a writing program introduces new ways of teaching research, what are students' expectations of and reactions to these new types of research assignments?; 2) to what extent have the new ideas about researched writing penetrated other disciplines and what kinds of research assignments are students in those disciplines being asked to do?"		by Daniel Melzer and Pavel Zemliansky