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The class provides a hands-on environment to help students with sentence-level editing since the writing center on campus traditionally focuses on more global concerns. Incoming California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) students who are deemed by the California State University system as needing additional support to satisfy their first year writing requirement (so-called “Early Start” students, explained further below) are placed in English 299 and given priority enrollment in the first year composition (FYC) course of their choice. The class follows a coaching model that helps students develop confidence as editors of their own work and demystifies the writing process.  \nInstitutional Context  \nFounded in 2002 and located in the city of Camarillo, CSUCI is the newest campus in the country’s largest state university system. Nearly 60% of CSUCI’s enrollment consists of first-generation college students. CSUCI is also a Hispanic Serving Institution, with Latinx students comprising 53 percent of the population (“Fall Enrollment Snapshot”). Many CSUCI students are second-generation Americans whose families work the agriculture fields that surround our Ventura County campus. CSUCI was the first campus in the 23-campus California State University (CSU) System to pilot Directed Self-Placement (DSP) as an alternative to the CSU’s English Placement Test (EPT) . It is also the only CSU campus to have never offered remedial English classes.  \nSince its inception, CSUCI’s composition program has practiced DSP, which provides students with guidance to enable them to reflect on their own readiness for college writing and choose for themselves whether to take two semesters of writing courses (Stretch Composition) or a single semester composition and rhetoric course. These courses are taught by full-time faculty who work together as a team on program and curriculum development and assessment, including holistic team scoring of student writing that yields invaluable, objective data demonstrating that students are, in fact, placing themselves well in first year composition. This program structure, combined with strict course caps of twenty students per section in lower division com  \nComposition Studies 48.2 (2020): 128–138  \nposition courses, supports students in successfully completing their first year writing requirement in whichever path they choose. Whether students choose two semesters of writing or move straight into the one-semester course, the majority (typically ~90-94%) pass CSUCI’s college-level composition course with a grade of C-or higher. This is notable given that traditional measures of readiness for college writing have indicated over the years that only twothirds of incoming first year students come to CSUCI prepared to succeed in college-level composition courses.  \nDSP began as a pilot at CSUCI but quickly spread to other, more established CSU campuses who similarly questioned the relevance of the EPT. While the CSU Chancellor’s Office grew to support these efforts to expand DSP as well as Stretch Composition, they continued to undergird a culture of remediation via unfunded mandates to prove that students were “making up their deficits” in writing. One such program was mandatory Early Start, which forced incoming students with low scores on the EPT to enroll in a noncredit, twenty-hour summer class intended to alleviate their shortcomings in writing.  \nThe 2010 cover letter included with the CSU Chancellor’s Office Executive Order (EO) 1048 and the mandatory Early Start policy stated that each campus was required to develop an individual plan for how they would comply with the mandate. 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