[2] The ideas behind process were born out of increased college enrollment thanks to the GI Bill following World War II.
[citation needed] Composition scholars such as Janet Emig, Peter Elbow, and Donald Murray began considering how these methods could be used in the writing classroom.
Also, students might not be inclined to take control of the class content and decide what they want to explore; they may expect the instructor to provide material for them.
Power can also be a struggle, for if student grades depend on a portfolio, then instructors have to find ways of encouraging and/or enforcing attendance.
Instructors must also find ways to encourage each student to explore and bring content to the course and must deal with diversity and a range of opinions on what should be done in the course.
Process rose to prominence in composition classrooms during the late 1960s and enjoyed its status as the gold standard method of teaching through the 1980s and into the 1990s.