The collection includes business operation records, budgets, student handouts, course materials, and general information concerning the teaching of writing courses at UC Davis. Also included are newspaper clippings and recordings of guest speakers and events.

The University Writing Program "promotes excellence in written communication among UC Davis students and faculty and emphasizes the importance of writing in the larger community." The program, founded in 2004 as an expansion of the UC Davis Campus Writing Center, offers discipline-specific writing classes for undergraduates and workshops for graduate students as well as an undergraduate minor in writing and a graduate-level interdisciplinary emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies. It is the administrative home of Writing on the Edge, a journal on writing and teaching of writing, and Prized Writing, which publishes juried undergraduate writing.

4 linear feet

All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Collection is open for research.