College Writing
ENGx110
Extended Response
3.0 / Lower
The UExcel College Writing examination measures knowledge and understanding of the material typically taught in an introductory, one-semester, three-credit, lower-level undergraduate course in college writing. The examination measures the ability to organize knowledge, ideas, and information; to adopt rhetorical strategies such as narration, illustration, explanation, and description in appropriate ways; to adopt and maintain a tone and point of view appropriate for a specified audience and rhetorical situation; to develop and maintain a controlling idea and a coherent organization; and to write within the rhetorical, syntactic, and mechanical conventions of Standard Written American English. (Extended response examination)
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