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Writing Program
The Office of the Writing Program is closed from June 16 - August 14, 2009.
The results of the May Writing Exemption and Placement Exam have been mailed. PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
- If you took an AP literature, history or composition exam as a junior in high school and scored a 4 or higher, you are exempt from WRI 102, but the college will not be inputting any AP scores into the system until late summer when all AP scores, including this year’s, are received. Therefore, although you are exempt from WRI 102, it will not show up in your PAWS account until them. This will have no effect on your fall course schedule since incoming first-year students do not take WRI 102 until the spring.
- If you took ACT instead of SAT, you can place out of WRI 102 with a composite score of 26 or higher. Please fax your ACT scores to 609.637.5132 and your placement status will be upgraded in late August.
- If you scored a 580 or above in BOTH critical reading and math, and yet still received a letter indicating that you need to take WRI 102, this may mean that not all of your SAT scores were received by the college. Please fax your relevant SAT scores to 609.637.5132 and your placement status will be upgraded in late August.
Attention: students who were waiting on AP scores but did not score a 4 or higher, students who could not travel to the college in May, or students who were admitted to the college late, the Make-Up Writing Exemption and Placement Exam will be held on Wednesday afternoon, August 26th. Pre-registration is required and will be available in mid-August here on this page. Please check again at that time.
If you have further questions about your placement status, please call the office of Liberal Learning at 609.771.2409.
"I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself."
—Gloria Anzaldua
"When you get out into the world, nobody is going to ask what grade you got in freshmen composition. They’ll only expect you to show that you can write."
—Tom Brown, Managing Principal at TBA Associates & former Dean at Saint Mary’s College, CA
"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
—Joan Didion
"The grammatical choices we make—including pronoun use, active or passive verb constructions, and sentence patterns—represent relations between writers and the world they live in."
—Laura Micciche, Assistant Professor, English, University of Cincinnati
Welcome to the Writing Program at The College of New Jersey! Our goal is to promote the development of students’ identities as good writers. We hope all TCNJ students can eventually see themselves as informed participants in the wide range of “conversations” that make up academic and public discourse. The courses offered in the Writing Program as well as throughout the college’s writing intensive curriculum will help students develop the skills necessary for today’s world.
This website was designed to assist you. If you are a student, you can get important details about the placement exam, meet the writing faculty, learn about courses, and access guides to help you become a more effective writer.
If you are a faculty member, you’ll find practical resources whether you’re teaching WRI 102 or a writing intensive course—including information and links on rubrics, critical thinking, and other pedagogical issues.
Hopefully, this site will answer any question you may have about the Writing Intensive Curriculum and the Writing Program at The College of New Jersey. If not, please feel free to contact us at (609) 771-2864 or E-Mail us at writing@tcnj.edu.
