To determine whether Olivet Nazarene University's standard freshman writing course requirements measure favorably with those of the majority of the 75 Christian College Coalition (CCC) members, a study compared the textbooks, papers, activities, and evaluation procedures required by each institution. Stephen Witte's "National Survey of College and University Writing Program Directors" was used to evaluate the freshman writing course syllabi of the 56 institutions responding to a mail survey. Analysis showed that all of the respondents require some kind of freshman writing course, though most require only one semester while Olivet requires two. Overall, results indicated that Olivet's freshman writing course syllabus measured favorably with the syllabi of CCC members in its statements regarding (1) attendance, (2) manuscript format, (3) the requirement of some type of rhetoric textbook, (4) late work policy, (5) a grading system, (6) essay development, (7) topic/thesis sentences, (8) revision/editing, (9) paragraph development, (10) usage, (11) mechanics, and (12) evaluation on out-of-class essays, attendance, and a final examination. (Conclusions are also drawn concerning trends in the freshman writing classroom. Appendixes contain a list of CCC members, samples of the survey correspondence, and a list of the responding CCC members. Ten tables are included in the text.) (JD)