Writing in the university engineering community: a multi-year program at University of California, Santa Barbara

The paper describes a network of instructional activities based on several years of planning between the Writing Program and the College of Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara. The goal was to saturate the curriculum with opportunities for student engineers at all levels-freshman to graduate-to acquire strong communication skills. We wanted writing instruction to be thoroughly contextualized and to provide students with multiple literacies: print; non-print; multimedia; oral; visual