Responding to Colleagues: Setting Standards in Multiple-Section Courses.

Demand for college composition courses appears to be growing faster than sections can be add d or in structors hired. As part of a renewed emphasis on com munication skills and in an effort to correct the serious deficiencies in basic writing among college students, composition programs have been reorganized to focus part-timers or temporaries. This proliferation of sec tions and attendant last-minute shuffling of faculty only exacerbate diversity of standards in multiple-section courses.