A European Model for writing support

The recent growth of writing initiatives in central and eastern europe has created a situation where the natural solution is to look to countries where models for teaching writing are well established, most notably the us, but also to a lesser extent the uk. While the us provides highly developed models for teaching and supporting writing in english as a first language at the undergraduate level and in the context of a liberal arts model of higher education, the uk offers models for teaching writing in english as a second language at the graduate level so as to integrate them into the british education system. Neither of these models considers what it might be like to teach writing in a first language other than english or in english in a non-english-speaking country. In this sense, transferring models across new contexts involves a degree of risk for mismatch. In this chapter, i deconstruct the options available to those teaching writing in romania and consider how institutions can combine elements in new ways in order to create a european model of writing support.keywordsacademic writingteaching writingwriting modelwriting supportwriting course.