2008 Woodie Awards
WEPT is a MUST
Cheyenne Lee
Issue date: 4/1/08 Section: News
Listen up, juniors and seniors. If you want to graduate, then you have to take the Written English Proficiency Test (WEPT). However, you now have options on how to take it.
The WEPT has recently gone through changes. In the past, only one of the two versions of the test, an electronic and a written version, could be taken. Not anymore. Students now have a choice on how they would like to take this mandatory test.
Getting a C or better in English 375 Advanced Composition will exempt a student from the WEPT.
Professors are also discussing the possibility of embedding the WEPT in a junior level intensive course. This is still a long way off, however.
The WEPT department recently sent out notices telling students to take WEPT, because many juniors, who were supposed to take it when juniors, are now seniors-seniors who have not taken the test.
All students are bound by Executive Order no. 665 to take the WEPT, the SSU designed test to meet the CSU writing proficiency requirement to graduate.
Fear seems to be a big factor in this backlog beside oversight because of the many "folk wisdoms" as Cathy Kroll, Assistant Professor of English and the WEPT coordinator, terms it.
A few of these rumors are: WEPT graders want to fail people; WEPT graders do not pass a paper because the grader does not agree with the author's politics; and, The WEPT grader only wants to see a five paragraph high school style essay.
However, it is a fact that work is required for this test, because the CSU wants to know that that the author of a WEPT test possesses college level writing skills.
The WEPT graders are university professors, so they are looking for a way of words, thinking and ability. The author of a WEPT test must not only present a point of view, but also consider other opposing points of view to pass. A sufficient stand must be taken.
"We're not evaluating you for your politics, we're evaluating you for your argument," said Kroll.
The WEPT has recently gone through changes. In the past, only one of the two versions of the test, an electronic and a written version, could be taken. Not anymore. Students now have a choice on how they would like to take this mandatory test.
Getting a C or better in English 375 Advanced Composition will exempt a student from the WEPT.
Professors are also discussing the possibility of embedding the WEPT in a junior level intensive course. This is still a long way off, however.
The WEPT department recently sent out notices telling students to take WEPT, because many juniors, who were supposed to take it when juniors, are now seniors-seniors who have not taken the test.
All students are bound by Executive Order no. 665 to take the WEPT, the SSU designed test to meet the CSU writing proficiency requirement to graduate.
Fear seems to be a big factor in this backlog beside oversight because of the many "folk wisdoms" as Cathy Kroll, Assistant Professor of English and the WEPT coordinator, terms it.
A few of these rumors are: WEPT graders want to fail people; WEPT graders do not pass a paper because the grader does not agree with the author's politics; and, The WEPT grader only wants to see a five paragraph high school style essay.
However, it is a fact that work is required for this test, because the CSU wants to know that that the author of a WEPT test possesses college level writing skills.
The WEPT graders are university professors, so they are looking for a way of words, thinking and ability. The author of a WEPT test must not only present a point of view, but also consider other opposing points of view to pass. A sufficient stand must be taken.
"We're not evaluating you for your politics, we're evaluating you for your argument," said Kroll.
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