I. General Information

2O. What are my options if I fail?

As the Director of the Writing Center reviews your exam with you, she will identify your areas of difficulty: addressing the question (prompt), organizing your response, supporting your answer with details and examples, sentence structure, vocabulary, or grammar and mechanics. At that point she will list your options and suggest the one she judges the most appropriate in your case. The options are as follows:
  1. Taking a writing intensive course:
    • in your major (a course which emphasizes writing in your field of study),
    • in a field of personal interest,
    • by auditing or repeating ENG 101,
    • by compelling English 106 (Writing Workshop: Preparing for the University Writing Requirement).
  2. Getting tutoring:
    • at the Writing Center in Case Annex 173. This free, professional consulting is designed to help you overcome your writing difficulties with whatever working problems the Writing Director has diagnosed during your appointment. Practice UWR tests, handouts detailing strategies, and copies of the scoring guide are available upon request.
    • from a tutor in your dorm or community, either paid, professional English teachers/tutors or friends/relatives/ neighbors trained in English.
    • from your instructors who may critique your writing.
    • A video tape of a workshop is available for viewing.
  3. Studying books which detail the writing process. For a bibliography of suggested writing guides, see section 9.

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