Built by writing educators.
Designed for the work
you actually do.
WriteSpan was developed by specialists in writing program administration — professionals who have spent careers teaching writing, directing programs, and documenting that work for accreditation. We built WriteSpan because we lived the problem it solves.
The undocumented middle.
Every writing program administrator knows the gap. Students arrive, they write, they graduate — but the documented evidence of what happened in between rarely exists in any form accreditors or curriculum committees can use. Gathering that evidence manually is unsustainable. WriteSpan automates it.
One coherent arc.
Assessment data that drives curriculum.
WriteSpan's diagnostic assessments do more than document — they inform. Entry-level data reveals what incoming students can actually do, enabling writing program administrators to design first-year composition curricula grounded in evidence rather than assumption.
As students progress, dimensional score trajectories identify patterns across cohorts — where students consistently struggle, where instruction is working, and where curriculum needs to change.
WriteSpan turns assessment data into pedagogical action — giving writing program administrators the evidence they need to advocate for curriculum change, faculty development, and resource allocation.
A student success tool first.
WriteSpan is a student success tool that produces administrative evidence as a byproduct. Each assessment is calibrated to the cognitive demands appropriate to that moment in a student's development — from entry-level recall to capstone-level original argument.
Students are not measured against a fixed standard. They are measured against the escalating demands of their own four-year arc — producing a developmental record that documents not just what a student could do, but how far they have come.
Removing administrative barriers.
Accreditation documentation for writing programs has historically required enormous investments of faculty time — manual collection, inconsistent scoring, and data that cannot demonstrate longitudinal development in a format accreditors can evaluate.
WriteSpan eliminates these barriers. Institutional reports are generated automatically, dimensional trajectories are exportable for HLC, SACSCOC, MSCHE, and WASC submissions, and what once required a semester of manual work now takes minutes.
What we stand for.
Writing program administration is some of the most important work in higher education.
WriteSpan exists to make that work visible, documentable, and defensible.
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