In this "Connecting Practice & Research" column, we present a brief glimpse of the challenges and issues on the writing side of disciplinary literacy. A quick review of literature on academic and disciplinary writing provides an understanding of how the view of academic writing as a rudimentary and technical practice led the way into expanding views of learning to include social and situated learning; these are now present in the view of and issues about disciplinary writing. However, students' struggles transferring writing composition processes from composition courses to content-area courses require more explicit instruction of writing in college.