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What Level of College Writer
Are You?
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1. Find out what level of college writer you are
by downloading this one-page
Word handout with charts and descriptions:
Stages
of the Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced College Writer
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2. Find out your level by looking at these
sample college papers on the web.
Can you write papers as well? These papers are examples
of "A" papers--
according to
their writing style,
subject matter, and complexity of thinking--
at the following
college/university levels:
First-Year/Freshman-level Thesis Arguments
Sophomore-level Disagreement with a Reading
Sophomore-level Analyses of Readings
Junior-level Dialogic Arguments
Junior-level Literary Interpretative Thesis
Senior-level Critical Review
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3. Read one writer's story on the web--four
anecdotes--about starting to write,
going through college writing step by step, and learning to write
professionally:
"How I Learned to Write"
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4. If you love writing theory, find out about
the composition field's typical
Stages
of the College Writer, Faculty Version
by downloading this two-page
Word handout presented formally at national
and regional writing and English conferences (CCCC, M/MLA,
and TYCA-
Midwest).
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