This document describes the establishment, operation, and assessment of a student writing center within the ECE Dept. of the Univ. of South Carolina. The document is the Ph.D. thesis of Ms. Deanna Elizabeth Ramey titled "Assessing Writing Instruction in a Sophomore Engineering Course: Iterations of Integrating Writing from 1995-1999" completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in English, with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition. While she pursued her Ph.D., Dr. Ramey was a writing consultant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department’s Writing Center, a Gateway-supported project that has since been institutionalized as the Professional Communications Center of the University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Information Technology.

This is one in a series of Monographs in Engineering Education Excellence edited by Edward Ernst, University of South Carolina and resulting from work supported by the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition.