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Students transferring into the McKelvey School of Engineering should not complete this form. Engineering students should contact the McKelvey School of Engineering about the engineering English proficiency requirement.
Thank you for checking your eligibility. Since you were exempt from your prior college/university's first-year writing course and/or did not take a composition/writing course at your prior college/university, you are not eligible to submit a portfolio. Therefore, you must take College Writing (CWP 1501-1510) during your first year of study at Washington University.
We will communicate this information to your advisor. Questions about this placement decision should be directed to the College Writing Program Office at collegewriting@wustl.edu or (314) 935-4899.
Best of luck in your first year at Washington University!
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Based on your initial answers, you are eligible to submit a writing portfolio for review.
Please describe the course that you took at your prior college or university that you believe is equivalent to all or part of our College Writing course at WashU. Please include the title of the course and course number below.
Please provide a brief description of the course's overall goals (you may find this information on the syllabus).
Please use the space below to describe any other courses that you took in college that you believe may help you fulfill the university-wide first-year writing requirement at WashU. Please include the title of the course, course number, and a brief description of the course's overall goals (you may find this information on the syllabus).
What percentage of class time was devoted to the following activities in the course that you believe is most equivalent to College Writing?
Please consider how frequently you engaged with the following topics in your previous college course that you believe is most equivalent to College Writing.
Please reflect on your experiences as a writer and provide feedback on the following questions.
1. Required: Syllabus from the course you took that you feel is most equivalent to College Writing. 2. Required: Up to four writings samples from prior college coursework with at least one sample that demonstrates analysis skills and one that includes research. Note that at least one of these samples should be from the course you took that you feel is most equivalent to College Writing. Please do not submit any written work from high school. 3. Optional: syllabi and/or writing samples from other courses that you mentioned above.
1. Drag and drop files into the blue box below or click "select files" to upload your documents. 2. Please include your full name in the description and use your WashU email in the Email Address field. 3. Click "submit." Note that your files are only submitted once you see "Success!" in the box below.
All submitted writing must be your own and adhere to the College Writing and Washington University policies on Academic Integrity. The larger mission of the university—promoting research and learning—is undercut in a serious way when you submit work that is not your own. Though plagiarism can be a deliberate action, it can also happen unwittingly to undergraduate writers. Plagiarism can take many forms: buying a paper from a paper mill, submitting a ChatGPT-generated essay, failing to cite a paraphrase or summary, accidentally dropping a citation, too closely imitating another author’s structure, etc. These actions are forms of intellectual theft. The university takes plagiarism seriously and there are serious consequences for it.
Please check the box below to indicate that the writing samples that you are submitting are your own, and that you understand that if you are found to be submitting documents that in any way violate the university's academic integrity, there will be serious consequences.