Students must complete their Placement Tests at least one week before their Orientation session. All Placement Tests are accessible to first-year students from the checklist in the online Applicant ...

A strong foundation in both writing and reading is critical to your success at Western Michigan University. Before you meet with your academic advisor for your one-on-one advising meeting, you should ...

The first-year writing program believes that students should have a voice in the decision to take either ENGL 1050: Foundations in Written Communication or the linked sections of ENGL 1050: ...

The Directed Self-Placement (DSP) is a a series of online activities designed to help entering students determine which first-year composition course is the right choice for them. How do I complete ...

In addition to all required, major-specific placement exams, incoming international students are assessed on their proficiency in academic writing in American English. Assessment is based on their ...

Earlier this month, several hundred thousand prospective college students filed into schools across the United States and more than 170 other countries to take the SAT - $51 registration fees paid, No ...

FAIRFAX, VA. -- If a computer can win at "Jeopardy," can one grade the essays of freshmen? At George Mason University Saturday, at the Fourth International Conference on Writing Research, the ...

This past Saturday, several hundred thousand prospective college students filed into schools across the United States and more than 170 other countries to take the SAT—$51 registration fees paid, No.

Jeff Grabill is a co-founder of Drawbridge Incorporated, an educational technology company. Its product, Eli Review, is a peer learning technology used in environments in which writing is a resource ...

The Academic Senate voted last week to change the way students can progress beyond English 57, the writing composition class formerly known as Subject A and which is a prerequisite for all other ...

Anecdotal evidence has long suggested that some Harvard students write rather poorly. The official line is that all students should be proficient writers after completing a course in Expository ...