I came into Writing Center, Developmental Writing, Composition/ ESL work from a background in classical languages and reading remediation. In my composition classes I use free writing, paired work, group work, all kinds of in-class expressive writing activities, but I am still working toward and ultimately focussing on a competent product which includes competent command of the language. I am often working with students who cannot identify any words by part of speech or function. Some are "winging it" reasonably well; others have no basis for understanding debilitating errors. So, I work with them in my office, outside of the regular class because to spend a two-hour class teaching them how to identify a parts of speech would have the same effect on them now as it did when they sat through similar classes in junior high school-no effect at all. But, I have worked for years here to get the English Department to entertain the idea of having a basic grammar course which is required of those English majors who are planning to teach secondary English. There have been no language courses here, no grammar, into to language, linguistics, even though a small number of students have shown interest in ESL graduate study. I have finally succeeded and will be teaching a course next year which will be required of those who plan to student teach. Emily Schaefer