According to Juzwik et al. (2005), writing
research historically has been (a) comparably underfunded, (b) mostly descriptive rather than
experimental in nature, and (c) typically conducted in post-secondary education settings. I will
not attempt to explicate cause-effect relationships among these factors or to account for the
current state of writing research; suffice it to say that instructional research in writing is not as
mature as that in reading and does not enjoy the same level of distinction or rally as much
concern as the other two “Rs.”
The yield of such diminished status is seen in the poor performance