Teachers who offer a WD course attend the summer seminar, employ the Six Principles of Good Writing, as a model to follow and as a rubric to assess, require writing assignments that allow completion in developmental stages, and provide lessons and examples showing students how effective writing is done in the discipline.

The WD course syllabus must contain the "Faculty Statement," or a short paragraph explaining that the course will refer to The Six Principles of Good Writing in assignments and assessments.

The faculty member provides students with a Transliteration of the Six Principles--that is, a paraphrase or emendation detailing specifically what Purpose, Clarity, Organization, Coherence, Support and Insight are going to mean in the particular WD course.

The faculty member describes, and where necessary establishes, a support system for writing assignments in the course.

WD courses should make available--through either bookstore, library or on-line links--the style guide of the discipline.

The professor of the WD course teaches writing through a process approach, emphasizing drafting and revising.